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Shibboleth, I have just got in from visiting a neighbour, his daughter works for EA Games. He told me that they are in a process of a leveraged buyout.
Being headed by Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Arts
$55 billion.
This is a firm that makes computer games for teenagers, although they moving in to AI.
They make nothing useful, yet a consortium of very rich people think it is worth investing and borrowing a monstrous sum of money.
To me all nonsense.
This is the modern world, whereby very rich people trick poor people, the poor get poorer and the rich get richer, all to no benefit for society.“I do not think the World will end because there is increasing Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.”
“I do not think the world will end because it will get to warm ( as in global warming)”
“however, we could be slaughtered by global conflict…”Let me say this Michael, I do not think the world will end if there is a nuclear conflict.
If such a conflict happens it will however have profound consequences on the lives of everyone on the planet. But the planet will continue to spin on its axis, will continue to orbit the sun etc etcAs I and others have tried to point out to you multiple times, NO ONE ever has said climate change/global warming will be the end of the planet, no one ever. It will have profound consequences just like a nuclear conflagration would have. Areas that were great for growing stuff will become desert, areas that are desert may become fertile. Coastal areas will become more and more flooded, warmer areas will become cold, colder areas will melt and so on and so on. But the planet will continue to spin on its axis, will continue to orbit the sun etc etc
You try to ridicule the concept of profound change as “world ending.” Stop. The displacement of billions of people from climate change, if we don’t get a grip of our energy supply, will be just as severe as the displacement of billions of people following a nuclear conflagration, it will just begin more slowly.We have a clean, continuous ( at least for the next 4 billion years or so) energy supply. It’s clean and doesn’t pollute. We just need to harness it. It would give all countries a degree of energy independence. Energy geopolitics would more or less be gone.
The war on Iran, which I think you disagree with, is about control of energy. Ditto Venezuela. USA has stated in policy that its goal is to achieve energy dominance by controlling all the fossil fuel supplies. Do you think we would be wise to allow that to happen?I don’t believe you are a stupid man Michael. I believe you have you have the capacity to figure all this out for yourself. For some reason you just won’t even try. Why? Why are you so against a different form of energy that can do the same work?
Why are we currently shifting all our available treasure to “bolstering our defense” when we should be spending out treasure on expanding our grid, developing energy storage technology and investing in energy independence. If USA can’t control fossil fuel energy distribution, well maybe some of those pesky uppity countries might get ideas.HMS Jufair – Bahrain – Gulf of Persia
The United Kingdom Naval Support Facility (UKNSF) is a Royal Navy base established in Bahrain on 13 April 1935.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Naval_Support_FacilityOn 5 April 2018, the U.K. Naval Support Facility was officially re-opened by the Crown Prince of Bahrain, Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa and The Duke of York, representing the United Kingdom.
Now known as the former Prince Andrew.All Royal Navy ships withdrawn from Bahrain by early 2026.
Almost as if the present U.K. Administration thought something bad was going to happen?
ET, I do not agree with some of what you wrote on March 13, 2026 at 00:56.
Our world was warmer in the past and life flourished, even in Antarctica.
About 35 – 34 million years ago, it started to cool. I do not think there was a definitive single cause.
There was the profusion of flowering trees, removing vast quantities of Carbon dioxide from the air.
The spinning off of India from the Southern landmass, the crashing of India into Asia and the lifting up of the Himalaya.
Some suggest the splitting off of South America and the joining of South America to North America, allowing cold water to be “trapped” circling around Antarctica which had then been centered on the South Pole.
Even after Antarctica had centered over the South Pole, the trees and the creatures adapted to living for half the year in darkness.
Then about 34 million years ago, Antarctica started to freeze.
Yet for 250 million years, life had managed quite well on Antarctica, although it was a little further away from the pole.
At some time after the ending of the Last Glacial Maximum, Northern Africa became moor green
Large lakes and river, trees and wildlife, people hunting the animals and drawing on rocks of their life.
Then the climate shifted becoming less wet at least for this area, hence the shift of people to the Nile valley and the shifting to the rivers in Iraq. The starting of the Agricultural age.
If Northern Africa was green seven thousand years ago, it should be possible, at least in part, to make that happen, again. I just can not see that an increase in Carbon dioxide will crash the will of the people on Earth to adapt to different conditions. The lunacy we have seen is politics. First and second world wars, building up to another massive world war, the surrounding of nations, to cripple them and force their subservience, these are the evils.
Quite possibly we will be able to run much of our world from renewables, like geothermal and solar and tidal.
However, there is not enough Copper in the Earth for all this, so perhaps Graphene will have to take on the burden?
Europe is is an awful state. The U.K. is in a dire state.
I submit this is mostly down to politics. Also unlimited migration. I think the European Union has crippled Europe with its political nonsense. I do not think Methane is our enemy.
I think Methane is the transitional fuel for our present and our near future.Save your anthropological and ecological nuggets of wisdom for the grandkids. You’re fixated with carbon and global warming, and conveniently forget or don’t understand it’s not just one element. Do some proper reading and research atmospheric pollutants other than CO2 and you may be dismayed. Then consider the chemical pollutants in the soil and fresh water – then plastics and sewage – and you might be forgiven to think we will never really experience the consequential impacts of fossil fuel burning on the climate and environment as we will likely become extinct before too long. Along with many other species.
It was deliciously catastrophic on the Laura Kuenssberg show this morning – your hero Mr Milliband was in incredible form. You should watch it Michael. He’s the net zero bloke you adore. He’s prepared to join this war to keep the black stuff flowing – anything to preserve this way of life. Same with the other guests. It’s all about the economy and cost of living. Fantastic. How do you measure the cost of living in Gaza or Tehran or Kyiv?
Just think what we could have done with oil had we not been profligate, greedy and stupid. Small brained, selfish hairless primates. It was a treasure that’s taken millions of years to develop and we wasted it in just two centuries. In a very short time it will run out all together – and with it, everything else that is dependant on it. Everything.
But we wont see that scenario, and even if those born today survive the coming collapse, what chances do they have beyond their lifetime?
Sorry mods…. I wrote ‘wisdom’ in the first sentence. It should have read ‘nonsense’.
