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Guess what, here's a link to a US site that Trump hasn't closed down yet.  I do believe I have posted this link before but here it is again:https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/evidence/You should try and read some of this, it's difficult to argue against.  Of course you don't have to believe it but then some people thought the earth was flat and even now a few cranks still believe that, so I guess you can't make people believe what they don't want to.Anyway, here is an excerpt from the NASA site:The current warming trend is different because it is clearly the result of human activities since the mid-1800s, and is proceeding at a rate not seen over many recent millennia. It is undeniable that human activities have produced the atmospheric gases that have trapped more of the Sun’s energy in the Earth system. This extra energy has warmed the atmosphere, ocean, and land, and widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, and biosphere have occurred.Do scientists agree on climate change?Earth-orbiting satellites and new technologies have helped scientists see the big picture, collecting many different types of information about our planet and its climate all over the world. These data, collected over many years, reveal the signs and patterns of a changing climate.Scientists demonstrated the heat-trapping nature of carbon dioxide and other gases in the mid-19th century. Many of the science instruments NASA uses to study our climate focus on how these gases affect the movement of infrared radiation through the atmosphere. From the measured impacts of increases in these gases, there is no question that increased greenhouse gas levels warm Earth in response.Ice cores drawn from Greenland, Antarctica, and tropical mountain glaciers show that Earth’s climate responds to changes in greenhouse gas levels. Ancient evidence can also be found in tree rings, ocean sediments, coral reefs, and layers of sedimentary rocks. This ancient, or paleoclimate, evidence reveals that current warming is occurring roughly 10 times faster than the average rate of warming after an ice age. Carbon dioxide from human activities is increasing about 250 times faster than it did from natural sources after the last Ice Age.The page also references numerous academic sources, just scroll down to the bottom.

Jonathan Callaway ● 106d

Thanks Philippa for yet another of your helpful links of no interest to me.  Climate change is natural phenomena that has occurred for millennia and will continue to evolve despite how many of us in the U.K. install heat pumps, solar panels and wind turbines and drive electric vehicles etc etc.  Unless the whole world, and in particular China, US and India buy into it as well (which we know isn't going to happen), there will be no significant change.  In the meantime Mad Milliband will continue to steer Starmer and his Stooges down the Net Zero path towards bankrupting the country, all the while trousering a small fortune for pushing his ideological obsession.  'Labour is recklessly wasting £8.3billion of taxpayers' money on an energy company, Great British Energy, to that won't even generate any energy, but will make Britain dependent on solar panels and wind turbines shipped in from coal-powered China – all in the name of Ed Miliband's Net Zero targets.'The boss of Labour's Great British Energy will earn up to £525,000 a year and will even be allowed to work from home for two days a week.A job advert for the chief executive role at the publicly-owned company has revealed the eye-watering pay packet on offer for the successful candidate.They will earn a base salary of £350,000 but also be entitled to performance-related pay of up to half that amount.'With that huge salary on offer to the future CEO of GBE, how much is Mad Ed presently being paid?!

Sue Hammond ● 106d