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[Craig T]

I was going to avoid this but....

I work at a place full of scientists, UCL so no surprise that I have seen the evidence and yes, the earth is warming up as a result of human activity on the planet. I will say human activity as burning fossil fuels is only a part of the problem.

Has anyone looked at the population figures against global temperatures? The earths population is expanding, a lot, almost out of hand and off course that results in more houses needed as I'm sure we have all seen. New estates popping up everywhere around the country and those houses all need heating, energy to make the materials they are built from and all will have at least one car parked outside. More power stations will be needed to accommodate the demand from the houses and car charging overnight.
What about the humans too? We are pretty warm blooded creatures. Put 5 people in a sealed room for 30 minutes and it soon becomes uncomfortably hot so add a few million to a planet it must get hotter right?

Easy for me to say as I have no children and no intention to do so but, maybe population control is required as well as cleaner energy, at least until more space is found for us....?

Craig.

[oilstain]

^^^^ Very true

[Grandadrob]

Ah now ! Overpopulation will certainly destroy this planet.

[oilstain]

Ah now ! Overpopulation will certainly destroy this planet.

Time for a cull

[Craig T]

Well, this Coronavirus may be the just the ticket....

Craig.

[oilstain]

 


Or as a world we could stop the burning of coal, and wet/damp wood and cull all cows and pigs (or better still eat them all )

[Wittsend]

I'm not eating coal - I'm not pregnant 

Yes, corvid-19 could be the answer.

It could wipe out most of our forum members 



Someone posted ^^^ that fossil fuels can't spontaneously combust -  well they can.

There are many underground coal field fires around the world that can never be extinguished - they are massive and they are clucking out tons and tons of CO₂ (and other nasties) every second 



 

[Craig T]

I saw a program once about a coal mine fire in America.

Apparently they were using some of the old open pits for land fill and to make room they decided to start burning the combustibles on the surface. One day it found it's way inside the mine and now there is no way to extinguish it.
The fire is slowly burning up the supports that were left in the mine to support the roof so as it burns the ground is gradually sinking into the hole.

Nearly as impressive as a company in America that was drilling oil exploration holes in a lake and managed to drill into a salt mine. The entire lake drained into the mine taking with it trees, shoreline, boats, houses...

Craig.

[Grandadrob]

Didn’t the coal on the Titanic spontaneously combust.  Alan I hope that your comment about the virus wiping out this forum, wasn’t aimed at us oldies.....

[Wittsend]

I'm afraid this virus goes for us oldies 

[Porkscratching]

The lastest fear mongering frenzy...the media love it when they've nowt better to do, (or if theyre diverting attention from something else)
..before that we were all going to die of bird flu....then it was swine flu...all inscrutable Chinese ones usually..

[Genem]

Didn’t the coal on the Titanic spontaneously combust.  Alan I hope that your comment about the virus wiping out this forum, wasn’t aimed at us oldies.....

For a bit of spontaneous combustion fun check out the explosion on board the SS Fort Stikine in India during WW2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944_Bombay_explosion

[Porkscratching]

Flour can be very explosive ( surprising to me as a kid when first told of it) I believe they've had some serious ones in the past particularly in America..

[Grandadrob]

Isn’t that the stuff we put in the Kellogg’s submarines......... apologies to anyone under 70..

[w3526602]

What about the humans too? We are pretty warm blooded creatures. Put 5 people in a sealed room for 30 minutes and it soon becomes uncomfortably hot so add a few million to a planet it must get hotter right?


Hi,

Does anybody remember a TV series called "The Advenures of Don Quick"?  Loosely based on Don Quixote. The hero was a spaceman who visited distant planets, to service "navigation beacons".

On one planet, the entire population lived in a huge skyscraper, too scared to venture outside because of the dogs. The royalty lived on the top floor. The floor below was a heaving mass of sweaty humanity ... they were the "central heating". The garbage disposal system was to throw it out of the window, and let the dogs dispose of it.

Don Quick persuaded the population to go out hunting the dogs, and took his leave.

The final shot was of his space ship taking off ... while a huge Afghan Hound cocked it leg over the skyscraper.

They don't make TV programs like the used to.

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