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In the uk politicians are paid peanuts, hence we have monkeys who make stupid descions like this - guaranteeing 3 times market price for such electricity - it's

In the uk politicians are paid peanuts, hence we have monkeys who make stupid descions like this - guaranteeing 3 times market price for such electricity - it's a complete scam confiscating our hard earned cash, then paying most of it too foreign companies somwe don't even benefit from tech advances in this field. All in the name of the modern religion - nonsense computer modelled weather forecasts. Most weather cycles - particularly solar cycles related to Gas giant orbits and and our position in the milky way point towards cooling. Currently we are in a weak solar maximum, when this goes minimum in 5 years after El Ninio swings to La Ninia next year - it will be very obvious how silly most people are. Co2 is good, life is carbon based, the world becomes much more fertile at higher levels, in anycase warm is better than cold, most prefer Florida to Canada a much greater temp diff than any concievable warming.

colinb 11y ago
> In the uk politicians are paid peanuts, hence we have monkeys who make stupid descions like this Indeed. If only we paid MPs like they do in Nigeria it would all be much better. Furthermore, to call computer modelling, i.e. recording all the data we can find and then trying to make sense of it via predictive [though inevitably flawed] analysis a religion is one thing; but if your only counterpoint is some waffle about gas giants and the observation that the weather is nicer in Florida than Canada I find your argument unconvincing. We make predictions as best we can with the data, and maths available to us. ANYTHING else is religion because it isn't subject to counter arguments. Finally, this obsession with politicians "confiscating our hard earned cash" is pernicious nonsense. We pay tax. The government uses it to build stuff. Most (not all - governments are largely made up of people no smarter than you or me) of it is useful. There are places on the planet where taxes aren't collected in the same way. You're welcome to go there and live with warlords, barrel-bombs, water born diseases that wreck eyesight, drug cartels and all the other fun stuff that goes with any system other than the (rotten, annoying, frustrating, inefficient) thing we already have here in the UK. I'm not from the UK but I consider myself lucky to have spent time living and working here. I build useful things, get well paid, and willingly pay taxes in exchange for roads, hospitals [modulo PPI], schools, sanitation, rule-of-law and so on.

colinb 11y ago

> In the uk politicians are paid peanuts, hence we have monkeys who make stupid descions like this Indeed. If only we paid MPs like they do in Nigeria it would all be much better. Furthermore, to call computer modelling, i.e. recording all the data we can find and then trying to make sense of it via predictive [though inevitably flawed] analysis a religion is one thing; but if your only counterpoint is some waffle about gas giants and the observation that the weather is nicer in Florida than Canada I find your argument unconvincing. We make predictions as best we can with the data, and maths available to us. ANYTHING else is religion because it isn't subject to counter arguments. Finally, this obsession with politicians "confiscating our hard earned cash" is pernicious nonsense. We pay tax. The government uses it to build stuff. Most (not all - governments are largely made up of people no smarter than you or me) of it is useful. There are places on the planet where taxes aren't collected in the same way. You're welcome to go there and live with warlords, barrel-bombs, water born diseases that wreck eyesight, drug cartels and all the other fun stuff that goes with any system other than the (rotten, annoying, frustrating, inefficient) thing we already have here in the UK. I'm not from the UK but I consider myself lucky to have spent time living and working here. I build useful things, get well paid, and willingly pay taxes in exchange for roads, hospitals [modulo PPI], schools, sanitation, rule-of-law and so on.