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Climate Change on the Moral Maze this eveningI wonder if they will ponder the morality of deciding not to allow sceptics to debate them. I wonder if they will even allow sceptics to take part.
Good news: we now have until 2030 to save the earth
Phew! The dangers of global warming are receding. Admittedly that is not how most news sources are reporting the publication of the latest IPCC report this morning. But it is the logical conclusion of reading coverage of the issue over the past decade.According to today’s IPCC report we now have 12 years to avert climate catastrophe. That might not sound long, but it means we are a good deal further away from doom that we were in 2007, when the WWF said we had five years to save the world. The doomsday clock hadn’t moved in 2011 when the International Energy Agency warned us that we had five years to start slashing carbon emissions or lose the chance forever. By last year it had shortened to three years, according to Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. But now it’s right up at 12 years, presumably meaning that we can pretty twiddle our thumbs until 2030 – a whole 18 years after the WWF told us the world would come to an end if we didn’t slash carbon emissions....
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Climate Change on the Moral Maze this evening
on BBC Radio 4.
SG. "So 6 days after he sent the tweet, it's 11pm at night and the school/police suddenly decide it was a serious threat."
Where did the 6 days come from? It wasn't from the item Tomo linked to.
Where did "suddenly" come from (your invention perhaps?)
SG. Utter rubbish, you have no way of getting into my twitter account. You think I'd leave it open to your tender mercies?
Hypothetically, I might be just hacking into @STs Twitter account right now so I can send out a couple of such tweets.
Is it fair enough that the police turn up at his door, or should they be more pragmatic ?
So 6 days after he sent the tweet , it's 11pm at night and the school/police suddenly decide it was a serious threat.
Good thinking he might genuinely have been about to sneak out with a can of petrol.
Of course he has a duty to NOT send out things that look like a genuine threat of violence.
"We talked for 15 minutes and by the end, the detectives were offering me information. The next day they sent me the entire file. I saw just who it was who sent the police banging on my door while my children slept. "
They did seem convinced it wasn't a genuine threat.
He was out of order.
but his kids were innocent.
If the school knew him, they should have phoned him, and said 'look you can't say things that look like threats"
AI replaces lawyers ....
ST
yeah... like a certain Florida school shooter? - but yes I take your point - with the proviso that I have absolutely seen worse threats on Twitter that have not been acted on - including some blood curdling ones from "blue ticks".
Having said that - I have a strong desire to punch this guy on the nose.
I've been getting promotional tweets apparently from The Powers That Be asking me to nominate somebody for an award. I'd like to nominate porky plod Sir Craig Mackey for a white feather = the new BoatyMcBoatface?
Stoic / Harry Passfield
I heard the Moral Maze trailer on R4 on the way to the supermarket .... it caused a bit of spontaneous profanity. Michael Buerk had gravitas famine tone turned up to 11 imho. Unlike much R4 stuff it's also podcast so copies will be out there - maybe they'll moderate a bit - but actually .... I doubt it - we'll hear later - I rather suspect a hefty dose of handwringing pathos will be coming over the airwaves.... is Geldof on?