Re: Stagecoach plan 30% fare increase for East Midlands

On 30 Jun, 22:55, David Buttery <rabbit...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The Good Doctor <docnews2...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote innews:1183239572.509781.226490@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Climate change, in the form of increasing storminess, has been
affecting us increasingly since the mid-1980s - in my previous
employment I had access to the data that showed it. And it is only
going to get worse, much worse, and more quickly than politicians
would like us to think.

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It's an interesting coincidence that we've had Hurricane Katrina and now
the Australian drought, both in countries led by well-known climate change
sceptics. And perhaps more to the point politically, I don't think any
future US president could now dare to take a Bushist position of denial. We
have serious problems in first-world countries *now*.


There were hurricanes and droughts long before some scientists decided
that attributing them to climate change would generate massively more
funds for research into man-made global warming. We shouldn't blame
every single extreme cliatic event on carbon emissions, just because
some scientists seek to serve their own climate research industry by
doing so.

Climate scientists' dire predictions for the hurrican seasons of 2006
and (so far) 2007 have not been realised. The 1900 Galveston
Hurricane was closely comparable to Katrina, but carbon emissions and
atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were very much lower than when
Katrina struck.


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