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Today reports emerged that Liberal Democrat sources say the televised leaders’ debates are unlikely to happen. The Lib Dems aren’t happy because Nick Clegg is only in two of the three debates, and is relegated to the likes of Plaid Cymru, who received one-sixtieth as many votes in 2010 as the Lib Dems did.
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Not having them in itself is not likely to upset too many people. but those who don't want them, whatever the other reasons for not liking the idea of the debates, are clearly only worried because they think they will not benefit as much (given their parties agreed to them last time or wanted to be included last time), so there's nothing to be gained from trying to derail them completely as those that do care will see it for the craven political calculation it is.
http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2015/02/22/syriza-mep-manolis-glezos-sharply-criticizes-greek-govt-for-negotiations-handling/
But there's likely to be some serious infighting.
Well I've just had lunch with some friends and one of the people at the lunch said "I'm going to see the heart man Simon Levy next week who's I've been told is the best in the business with the emphasis on business"
I found it amusing but in the new world of hyper sensitivity perhaps I shouldn't have smiled
Even on the site 'Skeptical Science' -a site whose entire purpose seems to be trying to 'debunk' alternative theories wherever they emerge, does not even manage to dispute the time lag, it just fudges the issue and tries to say the increased CO2 after warming further accelerated the warming -for which it gets something of a hosing from experts in the comments:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-lags-temperature.htm
Huzzah! The debates were rubbish.
FPT: Miss Plato, I'm aware of the existence of Agent Carter but haven't seen it. I'm really quite surprised Channel 4 haven't picked it up, given they have Supermodels of SHIELD and it's an obvious fit.
It does sound good, from your description. Hopefully it won't be too long until Gotham returns.
https://twitter.com/Sunil_P2/status/569480545782145026
BUT there is no way for them to derail things without it being seen, correctly, as though they are only concerned because they feel they will be disadvantaged, which is petty and pathetic.
Plato said:
OT Has anyone seen Forever? It looks rather interesting.
A 200-year-old man works in the New York City Morgue trying to find a key to unlock the curse of his immortality.
That sounds just like a show from a few years ago called New Amsterdam, starring a pre Game of Thrones Nikolaj Costa-Waldau (Jaime Lannister), only in that one he was a detective, not a morgue worker.
I liked the concept well enough, only saw the pilot, so I'll probably give this new one a shot
Have your own opinion if you like. Everybody is entitled to their own opinion (no matter how stupid it may be).
Given we're into the Easter hellatus for the next month or so - I'm using this time to rewatch old favourites and trying to make my MX box talk to the ABC/CBS networks. Mine is a bit temperamental.
It's how to watch progs that aren't broadcast here - but totally legal to stream as it doesn't violate the peer-to-peer/download criteria.
Hence we get you, unable to fault the logic of what I'm saying, resorting to 'scientists know better than you', and half-witted insults.
2014 is the hottest year on record - the facts speak for themselves. Anyway the KEY thing is the trend and that is UP not down. Yes, UP!!!!
http://www.wmo.int/media/?q=content/warming-trend-continues-2014
Yes, the right-wing loons that inhabit this blog will continue to say - "nah, this is all made up" and "conspiracy!".
I'd rather believe the WMO than like nut-jobs like Christopher Booker and his ilk...
And Mr Richard Tyndall - continue to discredit me and throw mud - that's fine.
You say it like it was a bad thing.
Mr. S, hottest year on record? The Earth is about 4,500,000,000 years old, give or take, according to Google.
Records extend how far? One century? Two? Would you judge the Lord of the Rings Trilogy by the last five seconds of The Return of the King's credits?
Thanks for the advice.
It appears the Scottish Parliament now requires people with dual EU nationality living in England to have been resident in the said country for a three month period.
Several years to go till the day. Maybe a sabbatical and a three month trip to R o I are something to plan for the future....assuming the rules haven't changed again.....
I'm surprised that no one has yet gone to the ECHR claiming the policy is racist......
So the Lib Dems could go to court about the arrangements if they choose.
I think that neither of Labour or Tories want the debates to happen, and I don't blame them.
It makes things a bit tricky re spoilers when I'm a long way ahead compared to the UK networks. I wish Syfy channel streamed their stuff easily - it's too much like hard work to pay them to do so without buying the whole Sky thingy. abc.go.com/shows/forever
1) Are the temperatures on it "weighted" (ie adjusted) before released?
2) Where the station is. This is needed so that the change in the local environment can be assessed?
Heathrow weather station will show a large change in average temps since the 1960s, however that has nothing to do with the climate. The whole reason wattsupwiththat.com started was due to a trained meterologist noticing that temperature stations in the USA were giving artificially high readings due to development round them.
The debates will clearly not happen. This avoids the danger of the worst outcome for DC, i.e., other Parties gain from the publicity. He may now even avoid the lesser danger of appearing afraid of them, since other Parties and possibly the broadcasters themselves look like taking at least some of the flak for them not happening.
Whatever your view of the debates, you have to admit it's been pretty nifty footwork.
http://www.ipcc-wg2.gov/SREX/images/uploads/SREX-SPMbrochure_FINAL.pdf
I'd be surprised, if so. Natural variation has accounted for temperatures hotter than those currently experienced, and colder than those currently experienced. There is no compelling evidence. The IPCC got its predictions drastically wrong in its 4th report, then upgraded its confidence in its own forecasts for the 5th report.
telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6738111/Climategate-reveals-the-most-influential-tree-in-the-world.html
Sue @English_Woman 31m31 minutes ago
Baroness Warsi Placed Islamist Radicals at Heart of Whitehall - Breitbart http://bit.ly/1D7p5vH
I bet that Cammo is red faced, and if he isn't, then he knew what she was up to.
Once they started making concessions, they were on a slippery slope. I see no way back for them now.
Parliament reserves responsibility for funding English students at Scottish Universities (and has devolved Welsh and NI responsibilities to their respective Assemblies).
www.climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
That rather regular "natural" fluctuation up to recent times and then a vertical climb. For me, it rather demolishes the idea that the current changes are just more of the same variation.
But no doubt somebody here can tell me it's meaningless.
Grimdark is very popular, there's some nice comedy (Terry Pratchett, for example, is practically a subgenre by himself), fairytales also seem to be back in fashion. Of course, it's entirely possible and legitimate to like none of that, but fantasy = Tolkien is as mistaken as poetry = rhyming.
The claims are based on the Yamal tree samples which came from only 12 specimens of 252 in the original data set. A larger data set of 34 trees from the same vicinity that weren’t used showed no dramatic recent warming, but warmer temperatures in the Middle Ages.
A made up world with no magical elements or dark inhuman plot, just human drama? Fine.
The Napoleonic Wars, only with dragons? Fine
A universe where the world has been split into 4 different worlds embodying one of the four classical elements? Fine
And so on and so on. Each to their own I guess. I've gone a bit off dark lord plots myself in truth
Three months isn't a lot of time though, and it can be any three months not the three months before attending university. It appears to be the case though that a period of a year is needed to avoid a big argument when applying.
http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/globalassets/documents/raise/publications/2014/employment_learning/4114.pdf
For the Lib Dems the important thing is that they are still recognised as a relevant party and their Ofcom major party status should enable that.
Good for mockery, though.
Edited extra bit: and such plots *can* work, but they've been done so much it's more difficult [because it's a well-trodden path].
The story album of Arctic voyage is fantastic and heart-breaking
This other track has an almost steel-guitar twang is Lights, used in Vampire Diaries -
Small world...all his spinners are Labour and his son works for Old Tone.
On racism, the qualification for people withinn the UK is, as has been stated many times here, on residence and not race or nationality (neither of which is legally defined in the UK anyway: there is no such thing as an English passport)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/upshot/hillary-clinton-and-inevitability-this-time-is-different.html?ref=todayspaper&abt=0002&abg=0&_r=0
I disagree with the article. There are no declared candidates against her and yet her curve is on a distinct downward trajectory already.
Speaking of Southern actors - does anyone beat Walton Goggins? Andhis piano keyboard smile?
I loved him as Venus Van Dam in Sons of Anarchy. A superb tranny. So different from Boyd Crowder in Justified or Shane in The Shield.
A talking shop is not 'the heart of whitehall' - no matter who sits on it.
The tortuous nature of the Telegraph report can be judged by is comment on planning permission for a mosque - '' The planning appeal will be decided by the Department for Communities and Local Government, the same ministry which runs the working group on anti-Muslim hatred on which Mr Ahmed sits, although it reports to the Deputy Prime Minister. The decision will be announced next month''
One of the people attacked by the report is this man -
http://www.thepressnews.co.uk/press-news/an-amazing-day-at-palace-for-iqbal/
''WEST Yorkshires Batleybased Deputy Lord Lieutenant Iqbal Bhana was presented with his OBE by Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace last week.''
He was of course awarded these posts and honours by a Labour Government.
http://www.dewsburyreporter.co.uk/news/local/batley-man-helps-to-tackle-hate-crime-1-6619742
He may deserve it of course - thats down to you to show - but should Warsi be attacked for appointing a deputy lord lieutenant?
I kid you not, The FT have a story up headlined "Liberal Democrats take lessons from Roman army"
The party has chosen to pull resources from almost every seat it does not currently hold.
One senior MP said: “We have to sacrifice the plains and retreat to the villages and rebuild from there.”
A party strategist compares the campaign to the tactics of the Roman army, which defeated Hannibal by letting him occupy large parts of Italy for several years before striking back and driving him out of the country.
To read the article for free, google "Liberal Democrats take lessons from Roman army"
Now, I know that tree rings are not thermometers, and the wifth of individual year's growths can vary for many different reasons, but they do give us a reasonable idea of the fluctuations we see from year-to-year.
I'm not saying this to make any particular point - only to point out that we do have quite a lot of evidence of annual temperatures (albeit with significant margins for error).
And he wasn't 'driven out'. He left because Carthage was under threat.
My understanding is that the University of Arizona has a fabulous resource on tree rings for the past 40,000 odd years, and show many periods of warmth and cold in that time.
I wonder if there are any seats the LibDems have written off in this strategy?
Burnley
Large chunks of Scotland
...
Which?