Wez Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 Hey All, So what do people think about our wonderful leader offering $800m from the UK over the next three years to help smaller countries battle climate change? Discuss http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8383922.stm The climate treaty, now expected to be adopted as a final text only next year, will replace the Kyoto Protocol that expires in 2012. Mr Brown said half of the $10bn fund should go towards helping developing nations reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and the other half towards helping them adapt to climate change. The first cash would be made available next year, he said, before any emissions deal could take effect. He is offering $800m from the UK over three years, money that has already been budgeted for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny g Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 I think he's doing a great job of lowering his popularity... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_jekyll Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 i think the guy is a peenarse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 Excellent news, we'll beat that pesky sun and the general climate change that's been happening for millions of years with a bit of spare cash. Go Brown! Why don't we just use the cash to invade and claim these smaller countries so we can build up an empire again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Raven Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 Yes give them money so i can go and cavity wall and loft fill those huts and make some cash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethr Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 I wonder how much will be used to insulate Swiss Bank vaults... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j1mb0b1 Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 oh dear ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewOW Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 Is he related to suprastar380bhp per chance?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannhauser Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 Hey All, So what do people think about our wonderful leader offering $800m from the UK over the next three years to help smaller countries battle climate change? Discuss I'm very strongly in favour of it. Relatively small amount, but sends the right signals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DODGYDODDS Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 Hey All, So what do people think about our wonderful leader offering $800m from the UK over the next three years to help smaller countries battle climate change? Discuss http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8383922.stm You forgot to mention the creation of a a world governing body, who's invasive powers can usurp a countries constitutional law. I'm very strongly in favour of it. Relatively small amount, but sends the right signals. A small ammount at first, well not too small. Cant believe your in favour of marxist/socialist wealth redistribution. As thats all it is. After climate gate, possibly the biggest modern science scandal, How can anyone take it seriously. Co2 is needed to sustain life it's what plants breath, clever how they are conditioning the public to see it as a bad thing. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393/climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supradoopa Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 How about sorting our own Country out first, like the towns hit by the floods in Cumbria. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyT Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 Y How can anyone take it seriously. Co2 is needed to sustain life it's what plants breath, clever how they are conditioning the public to see it as a bad thing. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393/climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming/ Exactly mate. The only thing we need to cure most probs is to stop deforestation everywhere. Plants take co2 in and give oxygen out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewOW Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 Plant trees. Save the planet. (ahem) Possibly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannhauser Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 Crikey: plants fix carbon dioxide and release oxygen. That's good news (for Telegraph readers, anyway). Business as usual, then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmer Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 who voted the prick in in the first place, what about helping the elderly in the uk first the when all at home is fixed we can be charitable to others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pot Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 From looking at the survey of the tax system (08-09) : http://www.ifs.org.uk/bns/bn09.pdf It seems the amount they 'got' was £545.5BN, so £545,500,000,000... Nice And they're spending £800,000,000 on this 'aid' - 0.14% of their total income... On a hypothesis, a prediction of the future, even 'fortune telling'? Of course 0.14% doesn't sound like much, but how many OAP's could that warm/keep alive this winter, prisons be built to protect the public, be put into public transport (Oh, that'd help the penguins), lower council tax, go into the NHS (With efficient management), or anything to make the people who are paying it happier to be paying it?, OR : Build nuclear power stations so they don't have to burn the fossil fuels they claim are going to be the end of us as we know it?... Meh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DODGYDODDS Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Crikey: plants fix carbon dioxide and release oxygen. That's good news (for Telegraph readers, anyway). Business as usual, then. nah dont read the telegraph bud, first link on google,out of the 10'600'000 and i said breath not fix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannhauser Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 nah dont read the telegraph bud, first link on google,out of the 10'600'000 and i said breath not fix Well, you read that bit of The Telegraph, at least. It's a paper that's well known for its confused reporting on climate change, and for giving column space to the usual suspects. The usual suspects being people like James Delingpole: another self-aggrandizing certifiable nut-loop. [i did write a great long section here about the known political affiliations of him and his special friend Plimer, but....what's the point?] [and another one about 'climategate' itself. Same story...] By the way, plants are referred to as 'fixing' CO2, not in the sense that they 'mend something that is broken', but in the sense of 'making something stay in one place'. CO2 is 'fixed' by turning it into carbohydrate, usually via the Calvin cycle. I expect you knew that from your Environmental Sciences degree, and were just pointing a difference in wording because you felt like it, rather than because you'd never heard of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DODGYDODDS Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 sorry tan, i got sensitive, and thought you were jumping on me again ,And since the degree, ive had a major crash {head trauma} and had alot beaten outta me in mma, and working doors lol. My memory is like an unorganised filling cabinet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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