Probably for fear of alienating the Jewish vote in the US, which was already suspicious of the Democrats. When Trump did it, they didn't really have any choice but to go along with it. Paradoxic… (View Post)

The dilemma is that humanity cannot extract and burn all the remaining exploitable reserves of oil and gas without seriously disrupting the Earth's climate. Some of it has to be left in the grou… (View Post)

Literally nobody thinks you can treat historical readings with the same certainty as modern readings. In fact, a huge amount of past climate reconstruction work consists of working out how to compens… (View Post)

I'm not so sure about that. The fundamental issue preventing housebuilding is that developments are always vociferously resisted by the existing residents because there is nothing in it for them… (View Post)

My lad (born in Germany, identifies as White European) has just moved down to London from the Midlands. I've not been to London much, but I have to say it seems noticably more relaxed and friend… (View Post)