"I guess expecting a Senior Cabinet Minister to defend the merits of his own Government’s policies is too much to ask. That would be an ecumenical matter."
@Ben_Scallan comments on Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan's continued evasions.
No it's not..... it's not even on most people's radar! Pull your heads out of your asses - what a bunch of ridiculous loons you've all become. Especially you @MaryLouMcDonald You know EXACTLY what the most important conversation is, just a shame that you're deaf, dumb and blind to it!
@moneillsf So, in other words.....you didn't bother to speak to the community, you spoke to a select group to do some PR campaign recordings. Nice one 👍
@thesoundguy@moneillsf Be they crocodile or real tears, the 12 layers of muck plastered on her face, paid for by tax payers of course, absorbed them all!
@80s_Kidz This may sound disgusting, but hear me out - 2 slices of bread with mayonnaise spread on them and either Monster Munch or Chipsticks smashed between them. Pure edible joy 😋
@moneillsf@sinnfeinireland Well done - your ad hominem words just solved everything! You're an amazing representative and obviously 100% in tune with the concerns of your employers, i.e. tax payers! Give yourself a pat on the back 🤗 (and a pay rise!)
This is a United Ireland issue. Sadly, and I can assure you of this - the news reports tomorrow will focus on the "right wing minority causing damage and disruption", followed by interviews with people on the street damning the whole thing (the interview team will just happen to find PBP, Green, SF, FFG, and, of course, an Indian doctor contributing to society! 🙌). Not a single outlet will address the issue or the facts of the murder attempt. Let's be fair @rtenews are going to have an orgy coming up with woke bullshit for this one!
Aaah, from back in the day when tv reflected (sometimes,but more often than not) real people, real problems, with real jobs and real life stuff, with an entertaining twist......not the world of affairs with neighbours, murdering neighbours, daily emergencies that most would consider an "inconvenience", oh and wine, because we were all brought up being wine drinkers and connoisseurs!
How that rubbish is still on TV boggles my mind! These days, like most TV, it's just 👇
Any return to ice age conditions could trigger a crisis unmatched in all human history.
Earth is still technically in an ice age and average global temperatures of around 15°C degrees are still much lower than the long-term global average of 16°C to 18°C A global warming scare has been running for 40 years, yet 10% of the world's total land area is still covered by glacial ice.
From a human perspective, the combined land area of every town and city on earth is still only 3% of the total.
Ice covers an area of 15 million square kilometers (5.8 million square miles), roughly a third of its full extent during the peak of the Last Glacial Maximum (26,000 to 19,000 years ago). This was the most recent time in Earth's history when global ice sheets were at their greatest extent.
The Antarctic ice sheet is still the largest and thickest ice formation on Earth by far, reaching up to 4.8 kilometres (about 3 miles) in depth. It holds 90% of the world's ice by volume & accounts for around 85% of total global glacial ice cover. Antarctica spans roughly 14 million square kilometers (5.4 million square miles) and covers about 8.3% of the total land surface.
Land area is only 28% of earth's surface. The oceans cover 72% to an average depth of 2.3 miles, forests cover 31% and deserts 33%. The oceans contain 86% of the global carbon reservoir and 91% of all retained heat energy; by contrast, the atmosphere holds a mere 1 to 2% of each.
The past 40 years has featured a global warming campaign raising fears of an impending climate crisis, chiefly based on forecasts of soaring temperatures and a global climate crisis. However, the fact remains that the Earth is still technically in an ice age, with ice cover at both poles all year round. We still live in the Quaternary Glaciation, which has lasted 2.58 million years.
The Quaternary Glaciation is a more severely cold extension of the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, which has lasted for 34 million years, since the time of the original glaciation of Antarctica. The chief causes were due to orbital anomalies (the Milankovitch cycles), the isolation of the Antarctic continent when Australia and South America shifted northward, as part of global tectonic changes.
The last great ice age that was similar to today was the Karoo Ice Age (also known as the Late Paleozoic Icehouse), spanning approximately 360 to 260 million years. This is one of the five major ice ages in Earth's history.
All modern human societies and every meaningful invention has occurred during the current Holocene warm interglacial period, beginning 11,700 years ago. The previous warm interglacial was the Eemian (130,000 to 115,000 years ago). Temperatures in the Eemian were also 2°C warmer than today and African megafauna and crocodiles lived in the Thames valley.
The generally accepted average extent of ice age interglacials is around 15,000 years.
So perhaps we should be considering our next move if the next glaciation comes early.
@TheBabylonBee Anybody else remember when @TheBabylonBee was funny and a bit cutting edge? Now it's just....well, obvious 🙄 bye-bye humorous social observations, hello propaganda 👋👎