If this survey is real the messages these young people are receiving are completely wrong.
We need to reduce our impact on our planet but CO2 is a complete red herring. The current ECS (temperature increase for a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere) is centred around 3°C (IPCC AR6). The 2°C will destroy civilisation is simply made up.
Andy Millar:
Peter Bernard Ladkin:
… Covid-19. […] there are no major powerful interests vested in denying the existence of the disease.
Great post Peter, but I would slightly take issue with this point
Yes. I think you are quite right that there are vested interests involved in how we respond to and cope with Covid-19. Some of them are benign – I sympathise hugely with the owners of businesses where people gather, such as restaurants and pubs, and who are looking at, or already have experienced, the loss of their business. They are obviously both vested and desperate. And then there are the large companies such as J.P Morgan Chase telling their staff to come in or get out - I have much less sympathy.
Having been posting on these forums for over 15 years now I'm very well aware of the importance of these discussions in the context of wider society i.e. absolutely miniscule!!!
I'm not sure. Memes have to start somewhere, and some of them start in places like this. But of course it is happenstance.
Unless you are a bot, that is. A lot of forums are plagued by bots, and they have gotten a lot better since I first encountered one on an aero forum in 2007. But what they mostly tend to do, as you indirectly point out, is shut down discussion rather than encourage it.
But thanks Peter for your hard work on this thread,
I am glad to know that some people appreciate (some of) my contributions! Thanks!
P.S. Peter, What is the instrument in your photo???
A mandocello by Paul Hathway. I often capo it up to the 7th fret so I can play it like an octave mandolin. I have a mandolin by him also. But mostly I play flute (simple-system, wooden). Amongst other things, I find the breathing discipline important for mind as well as body. I have a Lejeune, a deKaiser, and a Williams, as well as a loaner unknown-DDR-maker B flute using the Koch/Meyer key design. Before all that I was a fiddler. Still am, I suppose - must try it again sometime….. for now, I am just hoping that my fingers don't all fall off at once.
The picture is by Suzanne Austin, a wonderful local portraitist and quondam band member.
Andy Millar:
Peter Bernard Ladkin:
… Covid-19. […] there are no major powerful interests vested in denying the existence of the disease.
Great post Peter, but I would slightly take issue with this point
Yes. I think you are quite right that there are vested interests involved in how we respond to and cope with Covid-19. Some of them are benign – I sympathise hugely with the owners of businesses where people gather, such as restaurants and pubs, and who are looking at, or already have experienced, the loss of their business. They are obviously both vested and desperate. And then there are the large companies such as J.P Morgan Chase telling their staff to come in or get out - I have much less sympathy.
Having been posting on these forums for over 15 years now I'm very well aware of the importance of these discussions in the context of wider society i.e. absolutely miniscule!!!
I'm not sure. Memes have to start somewhere, and some of them start in places like this. But of course it is happenstance.
Unless you are a bot, that is. A lot of forums are plagued by bots, and they have gotten a lot better since I first encountered one on an aero forum in 2007. But what they mostly tend to do, as you indirectly point out, is shut down discussion rather than encourage it.
But thanks Peter for your hard work on this thread,
I am glad to know that some people appreciate (some of) my contributions! Thanks!
P.S. Peter, What is the instrument in your photo???
A mandocello by Paul Hathway. I often capo it up to the 7th fret so I can play it like an octave mandolin. I have a mandolin by him also. But mostly I play flute (simple-system, wooden). Amongst other things, I find the breathing discipline important for mind as well as body. I have a Lejeune, a deKaiser, and a Williams, as well as a loaner unknown-DDR-maker B flute using the Koch/Meyer key design. Before all that I was a fiddler. Still am, I suppose - must try it again sometime….. for now, I am just hoping that my fingers don't all fall off at once.
The picture is by Suzanne Austin, a wonderful local portraitist and quondam band member.
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