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jon357   
7 Dec 2012
News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]

just some guys spinning yarns, without basing it on any evidence.

Quite a few highly respected studies in there.

It is irrevelent what titles these guys have

Most scientists and academics would strongly disagree. No. wait a minute. All scientists, in fact.

agendas are completely irrelevant here.

You seem to have a pretty one track agenda here. Why? Is it to do with:

the serpent people

jon357   
7 Dec 2012
Life / Can a 17 year old, buy beer and cigarettes in Poland? [30]

Agreed. One thing you'll notice is that cigarettes are sold in kiosks. These come in various shapes and sizes with a hole at around waist height to give your money and get your goods through (always in that order; Poland is not a trusting place). Just choose one where the front window above the hole is full of products on display, and the salesperson will hardly see you.

Not that smoking is at all good, and it is much better never to start. The health warnings are not a joke.
jon357   
7 Dec 2012
News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]

One cannot call a "myth" something that is based on hard scientific data. There is evidence that CO2 levels are rising hundreds of years after the rise of global temperatures.

Unfortunately for your argument, this has nothing whatsoever to do with the hard fact of man-made climate change. Why not check out the link I posted

Or just stick to posting about other fantasies like:

the serpent people

jon357   
7 Dec 2012
News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]

increased average temperatures,

Due to human industrial activity - of that the scientific community have no doubt.
The nonsense you and gumishu posted about Co2 lags is a popular myth among climate change deniers, however it just doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

When the Earth comes out of an ice age, the warming is not initiated by CO2 but by changes in the Earth's orbit. The warming causes the oceans to release CO2. The CO2 amplifies the warming and mixes through the atmosphere, spreading warming throughout the planet. So CO2 causes warming AND rising temperature causes CO2 rise. Overall, about 90% of the global warming occurs after the CO2 increase.

A popular myth amongst climate 'skeptics' is that historically atmospheric CO2 levels have risen after temperature increases began, and therefore it's actually temperature increases that cause CO2 increases, and not vice-versa as basic climate science and physics would have us believe. .. CO2 has historically led (rather than lagged) global warming - the reality is a little more nuanced than that, but that is the basic take-home message.

skepticalscience.com/co2-lags-temperature-intermediate.htm
jon357   
7 Dec 2012
News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]

here's your perfect correlation (there are considerable lags between CO2 levels and glaciatons deglatiations)

What 'perfect correlation'. I wonder if you've considered a reason why there are timelags with ice core samples. Scientists certainly have.

I believe that man has definitely contributed to it,but as to what extent...........

The Industrial Age has caused immense damage.
jon357   
6 Dec 2012
News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]

There is no science that says global warming is not happening

For once we agree - because it's common sense. The governments of the world are not panicking for the sake of it.

What we're doing here is stopping billions of dollars worth per year of gas being wasted and burnt away in huge fires.

what is more the ice core samples show no simplistic if any correlation between CO2 levels and global temperature

That is the absolute opposite of the truth.
jon357   
6 Dec 2012
News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]

Very easily - evidently better than you since you've cited something that doesn't in any way contribute to the discussion or have any bearing on the one undeniable fact - that man-made climate change is increasing.
jon357   
6 Dec 2012
News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]

a global food shortage

That one's only just beginning.

there are serious doubts unless you are a CO2-creates-global-warming believer and you most definitely are

Somehow, I prefer scientific consensus to the opinion of you..
jon357   
5 Dec 2012
Travel / Restaurant reviews in Poland. [86]

Elefant was one of his

That's what I thought - I remember meeting him a few years ago.
jon357   
4 Dec 2012
News / Poland: The poor get poorer - and next year will be worse [40]

Form a political party, have that as your platform and see how far you get.

Like Ruch Palikota, who've done quite well.

There is unfortunately an arrogant anti Catholic bias that runs right through the Angol world.

Or just a preference for laicity and a secular society where everyone's views are respected and none are allowed to profess absolute truth and impose their values on others.
jon357   
2 Dec 2012
News / PO-PiS again neck and neck [248]

jon are you gonna answer my qestion or not?

Most definitely not - some things should remain out of the public domain, however you have two adjectives and an adverb and will have to make do with that...
jon357   
1 Dec 2012
News / PO-PiS again neck and neck [248]

Sorry but that is not a normal laugh, that is a - the man has some serious issue laugh.

I only met the guy once, years ago before he'd stood for office, and I found him both creepily disturbing and very anti-social.
jon357   
30 Nov 2012
News / PO-PiS again neck and neck [248]

Kaczyński is being depebrately ill-advised by his closest associates

A fool among fools.
jon357   
30 Nov 2012
Language / How to say in Polish: "Be mine!" ? [12]

Again: wrong!!!

Unless you're a clairvoyant, I'm not terribly sure how you'd know which one I think sounds a nicer phrase.

Unless you meant something about 'literal translations' (oddly enough, some of us do know the difference between bądź and zostań, at least as well as you do) however the best translations are rarely literal, something that a significant proportion of non-natives who translate 'professionally' into English might do well to remember.
jon357   
29 Nov 2012
Travel / Restaurant reviews in Poland. [86]

its the same guy who owns Jeffs and Podwale 25

He also had the German place on pl. Bankowy - that wasn't so bad.
jon357   
29 Nov 2012
Travel / Restaurant reviews in Poland. [86]

Very popular. Not always authentic, often a Polish take on kebabs, but probably the foreign cuisine of choice nowadays.

Samira, by the way, supplies all the Arab dishes to the Sheraton Hotel, plus various embassies.
jon357   
29 Nov 2012
Travel / Restaurant reviews in Poland. [86]

Perhaps you're talking about a different place. Anyway, it's entirely consistent and authentic for a Middle Eastern restaurant to serve a mix of cuisines.
jon357   
29 Nov 2012
Travel / Restaurant reviews in Poland. [86]

Samira (restaurant and shop) is great - authentic too - however since we were last there, I gather they've put the prices up.
jon357   
29 Nov 2012
Life / You are Polish if... [433]

to say a lot of "kurwa" and reading your posts makes me do it a lot.

Same here.

The meaning of national and cultural identity isn't always straightforward. In Poland,some people assume I'm Polish and when I was in my home town in the UK not long ago, one of the locals asked if I was from Poland. Go figure.
jon357   
29 Nov 2012
News / In Bialystok, the mayor has now openly said he would like to lobby for ONR (National Radical Camp) [22]

The traditional forms of energy have been heavily subsidized for decades. What do you think the money came from to build the atomic reactors or coal mining etc.?

Exactly. Even large scale oil extraction doesn't happen without huge state involvement. Green energy, which anyone with space for a solar panel or a small windmill can take part in needs help to get it off the ground in the face of partisan opposition.