**Hypothetical question**
If there was a world-wide vote on the response to global warming and it went the other way to what you wanted, would you go with it, or keep campaigning in whatever form?
To clarify: there's the science of global warming (natural or man-made, benign or devastating)...
Just be interested to see what people in the global warming part of YA think of those people who oppose GM foods.
As the scientific consensus tells us, GM crops are both safe and can help to cut down on pesticide use, thus helping the environment. Yet there is a small number of anti-science...
renewable energy companies? . . . is this a possible conflict of interests>
The infamous magazine, Private Eye (issue 1257, p.27), reports that John Saunders, the head of a new government appointed body set up take planning consent issues away from local councils has shares in many of the...
You need to google "the year without a summer" - which will bring up a good example of what happened after one large eruption.
FYI - Lord Byron's poem "Darkness" was written just after 1816 and gives a glimpse of what fears it raised:
""I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun...
Even the IPCC predicts that up to 3 degrees of warming would overall be a good thing as more food could be grown to feed more people. The poor would be fed more cheaply. We would be lucky to get such warming.
Life on earth for the millions of children born today will be so much better then it...
change? Without proper data on ocean temperature there will be big holes in the ability to model climate change effectively - do you think this is a problem?
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because they fall for nonsense like you clearly have without even flicking through a history book.
Go an google 'global cooling scare' and see what i mean.
"The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Engines stop running, the wheat is growing thin
A nuclear error, but i have no fear
'cos...