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[TheBoy]

Hottest June day ever....breaking the record from 1976.

36.1C as opposed to 35.6C in 76.

So 50 years to break the previous record.  The climate Blok from the BBC will keep quiet I'm sure, as he normally says this will happen every 10 minutes...

He did an hour long special on BBC2

And how did he justify this is the new normal and why its happening every month, despite it beig 50yrs to break the record?

[STEMO]

Hottest June day ever....breaking the record from 1976.

36.1C as opposed to 35.6C in 76.

So 50 years to break the previous record.  The climate Blok from the BBC will keep quiet I'm sure, as he normally says this will happen every 10 minutes...

He did an hour long special on BBC2

And how did he justify this is the new normal and why its happening every month, despite it beig 50yrs to break the record?

Ermm.....I said he did a special....I didn't say I watched it 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

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The S engines would reliably run higher revs than the 1275GT engines.
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Fun cars back in the day.   
I owned quite a few back then, the Cooper S, the 850cc, the 1000cc Clubman Traveller, the 1275GT with the 11 stud cylinder head engine swap and an old mini van that smoked like a bastard when you lifted off due to the valve stem rubbers riding up and down on the stems.   
The 850cc used to raise a smile. It had extended wheel arches with Wolfrace alloys, 4 Cibie Super Oscars (2 up/2 down) and dark tinted windows. It looked the business and lads wanted to race it, not realising that it did 75mph flat out down hill.

I always thought the 1275GT was simply an emasculated detuned version of the old 1275 Mini Cooper S.

But not so, apparently.

[YZ250]

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The S engines would reliably run higher revs than the 1275GT engines.
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Fun cars back in the day.   
I owned quite a few back then, the Cooper S, the 850cc, the 1000cc Clubman Traveller, the 1275GT with the 11 stud cylinder head engine swap and an old mini van that smoked like a bastard when you lifted off due to the valve stem rubbers riding up and down on the stems.   
The 850cc used to raise a smile. It had extended wheel arches with Wolfrace alloys, 4 Cibie Super Oscars (2 up/2 down) and dark tinted windows. It looked the business and lads wanted to race it, not realising that it did 75mph flat out down hill.

I always thought the 1275GT was simply an emasculated detuned version of the old 1275 Mini Cooper S.

But not so, apparently.

My mini Cooper S had an 11 stud dual valve spring cylinder head, whereas my 1275GT had a 9 stud single valve spring cylinder head, and around 17hp less than the S. The Austin 1300GT, which also fitted in a mini, had the 11 stud dual valve spring cylinder head, so had similar output to a Cooper S.
Both the S and 1300GT ran twin SU’s, whereas the 1275GT ran a single SU.
However, this has nothing to do with the weather. It’s Varch’s fault for mentioning mini’s and setting me off waffling on down memory lane.    Apologies for going off subject. 

[LC0112G]

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1732:_Earth_Temperature_Timeline

Difficult to deny the rate of warming has increased rapidly in the past 100 years. Whether we should (or even can) do anything to slow the rate down is a different question.

[Varche]

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1732:_Earth_Temperature_Timeline

Difficult to deny the rate of warming has increased rapidly in the past 100 years. Whether we should (or even can) do anything to slow the rate down is a different question.

I think it will be a difficult 100 years until big population centres have environment controlled domes  We live in an incredibly narrow temperature range for life support or even comfort. 0C to 39C ?

[TheBoy]

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1732:_Earth_Temperature_Timeline

Difficult to deny the rate of warming has increased rapidly in the past 100 years. Whether we should (or even can) do anything to slow the rate down is a different question.

It's a proven fact that temps are rising.  The likes of the beeb categorically tell us it is due to human activity, which is NOT proven.  Much like smoking causing lung cancer hasn't ever been proven, but has been declared a fact without proper proof.

I believe that warming is likely due in part to human activity, and over population of the planet. in the same way I think it's likely that smoking is increasing your risk of cancer.


But we all know 90 year old Doris's who do 20 a day, and are fit as a fiddle.  And ironic that the continent that has embraced green technologies the most happens to be the one that the temperature is increasing the fastest....

[LC0112G]

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1732:_Earth_Temperature_Timeline

Difficult to deny the rate of warming has increased rapidly in the past 100 years. Whether we should (or even can) do anything to slow the rate down is a different question.

I think it will be a difficult 100 years until big population centres have environment controlled domes  We live in an incredibly narrow temperature range for life support or even comfort. 0C to 39C ?

Not going to happen - it's basically against the laws of Thermodynamics. To generate 'cold' you have to use energy, and you always generate more 'hot' than you can 'cold'. So you're just going to heat up the areas outside of the "environment controlled domes" quicker than would otherwise be the case.

[TheBoy]

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1732:_Earth_Temperature_Timeline

Difficult to deny the rate of warming has increased rapidly in the past 100 years. Whether we should (or even can) do anything to slow the rate down is a different question.

I think it will be a difficult 100 years until big population centres have environment controlled domes  We live in an incredibly narrow temperature range for life support or even comfort. 0C to 39C ?

Not going to happen - it's basically against the laws of Thermodynamics. To generate 'cold' you have to use energy, and you always generate more 'hot' than you can 'cold'. So you're just going to heat up the areas outside of the "environment controlled domes" quicker than would otherwise be the case.

Exactly. You can't cool air, you can just transfer the heat to another bit of air. 

[LC0112G]

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1732:_Earth_Temperature_Timeline

Difficult to deny the rate of warming has increased rapidly in the past 100 years. Whether we should (or even can) do anything to slow the rate down is a different question.

It's a proven fact that temps are rising.  The likes of the beeb categorically tell us it is due to human activity, which is NOT proven.  Much like smoking causing lung cancer hasn't ever been proven, but has been declared a fact without proper proof.

I believe that warming is likely due in part to human activity, and over population of the planet. in the same way I think it's likely that smoking is increasing your risk of cancer.


But we all know 90 year old Doris's who do 20 a day, and are fit as a fiddle.  And ironic that the continent that has embraced green technologies the most happens to be the one that the temperature is increasing the fastest....

Don't disagree with any of that, but what do you think is required as 'proof'. Civil law cases are 'on the balance of probability' (i.e. 49.9-51.5%). Criminal law is 'beyond reasonable doubt'. Certainty is 'no doubt whatsoever'.

Personally I'm in the 'beyond reasonable doubt' camp for Climate change being at least part due to Human activity, and damn near certain that smoking is a major cause of lung (and other) cancer.

[STEMO]

Did someone mention 100 years? Oh well 

[Doctor Gollum]

The human sources are China and the Indian subcontinent. Not least because they have no more concept of clean production as they have of clean water or germs.

The irony is that much of the related CO emissions stem from the "west" buying the dirty products and shipping ithem halfway round the globe.*

Shipping the raw materials and producing products in the market that requires/consumes them is not just more efficient but also uses much less energy.

* Notwithstanding that 95%of these products are of such low quality that they require replacement every 5 minutes.

Any country with a population of more than 500,000,000 needs to consider a cull. Then they can start to concentrate on cleaning up their act. It's no coincidence that the reason they have so many people is because their life expectancy is relatively low so more kids equates to better survival chances. Ironically having less population would significantly improve things like access.to.clean water and plentiful food.

[STEMO]

The human sources are China and the Indian subcontinent. Not least because they have no more concept of clean production as they have of clean water or germs.

The irony is that much of the related CO emissions stem from the "west" buying the dirty products and shipping ithem halfway round the globe.*

Shipping the raw materials and producing products in the market that requires/consumes them is not just more efficient but also uses much less energy.

* Notwithstanding that 95%of these products are of such low quality that they require replacement every 5 minutes.

Any country with a population of more than 500,000,000 needs to consider a cull. Then they can start to concentrate on cleaning up their act. It's no coincidence that the reason they have so many people is because their life expectancy is relatively low so more kids equates to better survival chances. Ironically having less population would significantly improve things like access.to.clean water and plentiful food.

So that's just two countries then

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

The human sources are China and the Indian subcontinent. Not least because they have no more concept of clean production as they have of clean water or germs.

The irony is that much of the related CO emissions stem from the "west" buying the dirty products and shipping ithem halfway round the globe.*

Shipping the raw materials and producing products in the market that requires/consumes them is not just more efficient but also uses much less energy.

* Notwithstanding that 95%of these products are of such low quality that they require replacement every 5 minutes.

Any country with a population of more than 500,000,000 needs to consider a cull. Then they can start to concentrate on cleaning up their act. It's no coincidence that the reason they have so many people is because their life expectancy is relatively low so more kids equates to better survival chances. Ironically having less population would significantly improve things like access.to.clean water and plentiful food.

So that's just two countries then

I believe that India now has a larger population than China.

[Doctor Gollum]

The human sources are China and the Indian subcontinent. Not least because they have no more concept of clean production as they have of clean water or germs.

The irony is that much of the related CO emissions stem from the "west" buying the dirty products and shipping ithem halfway round the globe.*

Shipping the raw materials and producing products in the market that requires/consumes them is not just more efficient but also uses much less energy.

* Notwithstanding that 95%of these products are of such low quality that they require replacement every 5 minutes.

Any country with a population of more than 500,000,000 needs to consider a cull. Then they can start to concentrate on cleaning up their act. It's no coincidence that the reason they have so many people is because their life expectancy is relatively low so more kids equates to better survival chances. Ironically having less population would significantly improve things like access.to.clean water and plentiful food.

So that's just two countries then

Between them they're destroying the planet and we're encouraging/enabling them.

There's a strong possibility that we'll kill ourselves before they change anything and they'll be left with a desolate barbeque to support themselves.

That said I would rather die from heatstroke than being woke.