Climate Change.

Thing is though, who cares about all the people that -didn't- die because measures were put in place? Who hears about the terrorist attack that was stopped before it happened? The disease that didn't break out?

Okay, the media does blow things up, always have, always will, especially if they get a good tagline out of it. Ozone layer - the world was alerted to it, CFCs were banned and a few other things put in place and the ozone hole has started healing, a real success story.

AIDS - once that became a danger that affected straight people as well, you can bet your ass a lot more money was poured into it. Now, one COULD say that well, people profiteer off it and I'm sure they do, but many lives have been saved.

Oil runs out - aha, this is an interesting one! I was looking at the chart of world oil production and indeed it follows a general bell curve, reaching a low in the early 2000s...and then picking up again? But why, if oil was running out. Bah, must be they were all lying and scaremongering amirite? Actually, it's because new technology was developed to make the extraction of oil from previously uneconomically viable regions, primarily shale oils ("fracking"), For better or for worse, whichever way you like to look at it, there's a new oil boom.

Sea level rise - has been happening, is still happening. I don't know where you got your 2 meters from, unless you're calculating from very old estimations or else going for a uniform rise, which isn't the predominant theory. Again, I shall point to the unfortunate island nations of Tuvalu and Kiribati.

ph rise/acidification - Have you seen the great coral reef of Australia recently? It's not looking overly healthy in places.

Desertification in Africa - Sahara and Sahel expansion still going. Quite rapidly, last I looked at the data.

Famine - Well, I'd suggest you talk to the dead people, but being as what they're dead, you can't. Although, being fair, famine is generally more of a supply issue, not a growth issue. We DO produce enough food. It just doesn't get everywhere evenly. Overall though, I'm not going into that one too much as famine is a complex phenomenon with many different partial causes.

Overfishing - someone has already pointed out that cod has gone from the cheapest fish to fairly expensive.

2012 - Er, well, it happened? Not sure what you want anyone to say on that, unless this is the Mayan Calendar rot which isn't and never was remotely scientific! If you're talking about the movie, god, don't, it was the biggest load of pseudoscientific bollocks made since Mars Attacks!. Seriously, that movie. Mayan Calendar, THE NEUTRINOS ARE EVOLVING -and- some sort of nutty planetary alignment that isn't physically possible but whatever. Lots of things were blown up and the dog survived, so we're all happy.

Thargor wrote: »

Hmmm how much lies and stupidity can you fit in one post?

It depends, how much is some "dark money"-backed libertarian think tank willing to pay? :pac:

Bongalongherb wrote: »

I'm not being sarcastic at all. Strangely enough the Met says there will be snow tonight in north Leinster and it's almost may.

Showers will continue tonight and will be wintry in places, with a risk of some snow over Ulster and north-Leinster. Clear spells also with lowest temperatures of zero to plus 2 degrees and a slight frost.

Are you just pretending not to understand? It was sarcasm, I was being sarcastic, can you not read the rest of the post? Im well aware that it sometimes snows and hails in April, did you think I was actually claiming temperature records werent being broken because there are hailstones in April sometimes?

Midster wrote: »

What do you guys and girls think, any thoughts?

Coke is a hell of drug.