Status quo painting the leave side as old farts that don't believe in things like man made climate change like you eek lol
pretty obvious status quo will win this battle as usual... Especially now after this latest event...
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[h=1]Brexit voters almost twice as likely to disbelieve in manmade climate change[/h]British people backing a leave vote in the EU referendum are almost twice as likely to believe that climate change does not have a human cause, according to a new poll.
Brexiters are more likely to think the media exaggerates how settled climate science is; distrust scientists; have sympathy with creationism; oppose onshore windfarms and support fracking.
The findings come in a ComRes poll of 1,618 people evenly split between those intending to vote out and in.
Many prominent leave campaigners are either openly opposed to action on climate change or have cast doubt on man’s role in it, including former chancellor Nigel Lawson, former environment secretary Owen Paterson and columnist Matthew Ridley.
Boris Johnson once penned a column suggesting snow on his windowsill means we should consider believing climate sceptics over governments and leading scientists across the world, but has not openly denied manmade climate change.
In the ComRes poll published on Thursday, 18% of leave voters and 10% of remain votes disagreed with the statement: “human activity is causing climate change.” Some 3% of leave voters said they didn’t know, versus 1% of remain voters.
The world’s top authority on climate science, the UN’s IPCC, says it is 95% certain that humans are responsible for global warming in recent decades.
Among leave voters, 68% agreed that “the media exaggerates the level of scientific agreement there is on human activity causing climate change”, compared to 52% of remain voters. But several studies have shown around 97% of climate scientists agree climate change is manmade.
The polling also found 44% of leavers thought scientists had too much influence on British politics against 25% of remainers, and 46% of leavers agreed that people who question the theory of evolution “have a point” compared to 36% of remainers.
On energy, leave voters were more likely to oppose onshore windfarms in rural areas (36% versus 21% of remain voters), and more likely to support increasing the use of fracking to extract shale gas (40% versus for 35%).
“It’s disheartening to see that so many people still refuse to acknowledge clear scientific knowledge, thereby undercutting the efforts of Britain’s world-leading scientists,” said Assaad Razzouk, CEO of cleantech firm Sindicatum Sustainable Resources, who commissioned the poll.
“Climate change denialism and anti-evolutionism are obvious hindrances to productive discussions about the future of Britain, Europe and indeed the world.”
pretty obvious status quo will win this battle as usual... Especially now after this latest event...
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[h=1]Brexit voters almost twice as likely to disbelieve in manmade climate change[/h]British people backing a leave vote in the EU referendum are almost twice as likely to believe that climate change does not have a human cause, according to a new poll.
Brexiters are more likely to think the media exaggerates how settled climate science is; distrust scientists; have sympathy with creationism; oppose onshore windfarms and support fracking.
The findings come in a ComRes poll of 1,618 people evenly split between those intending to vote out and in.
Many prominent leave campaigners are either openly opposed to action on climate change or have cast doubt on man’s role in it, including former chancellor Nigel Lawson, former environment secretary Owen Paterson and columnist Matthew Ridley.
Boris Johnson once penned a column suggesting snow on his windowsill means we should consider believing climate sceptics over governments and leading scientists across the world, but has not openly denied manmade climate change.
In the ComRes poll published on Thursday, 18% of leave voters and 10% of remain votes disagreed with the statement: “human activity is causing climate change.” Some 3% of leave voters said they didn’t know, versus 1% of remain voters.
The world’s top authority on climate science, the UN’s IPCC, says it is 95% certain that humans are responsible for global warming in recent decades.
Among leave voters, 68% agreed that “the media exaggerates the level of scientific agreement there is on human activity causing climate change”, compared to 52% of remain voters. But several studies have shown around 97% of climate scientists agree climate change is manmade.
The polling also found 44% of leavers thought scientists had too much influence on British politics against 25% of remainers, and 46% of leavers agreed that people who question the theory of evolution “have a point” compared to 36% of remainers.
On energy, leave voters were more likely to oppose onshore windfarms in rural areas (36% versus 21% of remain voters), and more likely to support increasing the use of fracking to extract shale gas (40% versus for 35%).
“It’s disheartening to see that so many people still refuse to acknowledge clear scientific knowledge, thereby undercutting the efforts of Britain’s world-leading scientists,” said Assaad Razzouk, CEO of cleantech firm Sindicatum Sustainable Resources, who commissioned the poll.
“Climate change denialism and anti-evolutionism are obvious hindrances to productive discussions about the future of Britain, Europe and indeed the world.”
That's why they waited 25years before holding this election, trying to bullshit the War generation where Europe is concerned was a total no hoper.
It's happening again too, the euro-muppets are now on the border with Russia, thumbing their noses and stirring up shit, just like they did before with Napoleon and the Kaiser and Adolf. They never learn to respect Russia, get too cocky, start a fight, then the Russkies kick the living crap out of them and the Brits move in to mop up the pieces.
This fools gold european eutopia is heading in the same direction, these european tribal morons never learn, which is why us oldies want nowt to do with them.
Britain has had all its wars of religion and tribalism and we're living in a pretty harmonious island now
Maybe one day the euro muppets will find that harmonious place too, but I wouldn't put any cash on it, Yugoslavia only confirmed to me what I have always suspected. Where Europe is concerned, mass murder is always just around the next corner
It's happening again too, the euro-muppets are now on the border with Russia, thumbing their noses and stirring up shit, just like they did before with Napoleon and the Kaiser and Adolf. They never learn to respect Russia, get too cocky, start a fight, then the Russkies kick the living crap out of them and the Brits move in to mop up the pieces.
This fools gold european eutopia is heading in the same direction, these european tribal morons never learn, which is why us oldies want nowt to do with them.
Britain has had all its wars of religion and tribalism and we're living in a pretty harmonious island now
Maybe one day the euro muppets will find that harmonious place too, but I wouldn't put any cash on it, Yugoslavia only confirmed to me what I have always suspected. Where Europe is concerned, mass murder is always just around the next corner
Curious to see if we ever hear a word from this guys mouth again everybody that knew him in shock.. So ? Becomes why... Did somebody put him up to this? Where'd he manage to get a gun in uk where guns much harder to get plus with his history of mental issues... Inquiring minds wanna know!! Just a kook asking dumb questions 
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Suspected killer Tommy Mair has two brothers: Scott Mair, 49, and a half-brother, Duane St Louis, the product of his mother Mary’s second marriage with the late Reginald St Louis, who came from Grenada.
Speaking outside his house in Dewsbury on Thursday, St Louis, 41, said he couldn’t believe the news. “I was watching Sky News and I recognised him in handcuffs on the ground. It felt like a dream. I just couldn’t believe he’d do something like that,” he said. “I phoned my mum and she was watching too. She tried to phone his mobile but couldn’t get through and she knew something was up.” Mair last visited his mother on Wednesday night to help her tune her TV, he said.
St Louis said Mair had Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): “He was obsessed with washing himself. He would scrub his skin with Brillo pads.”
He insisted his brother had never expressed any racist views and seemed fine having a mixed-race sibling. Neither did he have any strong political views that St Louis was aware of.
Mair had been volunteering for the past few years at a school for children with disabilities, he said.
St Louis said he had a good relationship with his brother, but that Mair would fight with Scott, his younger, full brother, from their mother’s first marriage. Scott has spent “half his life in jail”, said St Louis, while Thomas has never been in trouble with the police, he claimed.
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Mair’s mother, Mary, said she was too upset to speak on Thursday, but her neighbours talked of their shock at the news.
One woman, who asked not to be named, said Mair was a “devoted son” who did his mum’s shopping twice a week and would bring two carrier bags around on foot, before walking several miles up the hill back to his house. He had visited last on Wednesday, she said.
She insisted it was “totally out of character” and that he had never been in trouble with police before. She said he “practically lived in the library. He was obsessed with books. His house is full of them”.
Another neighbour said he saw Mair and his mother out in the garden potting plants together just last week.
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Nick Gannon, 33, who lived two doors down from Tommy Mair – the man named locally as the suspected killer – knew him since he was 10 years old.
“It’s shocking. He were a quiet guy, you would not think it of him. He would cut elderly people’s grass voluntarily. There were no reason to think he would be capable of something like this.
“He was friendly. If you said hello to him, he would say hello back. He was not aggressive or anything. He wasn’t frightening.”
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Suspected killer Tommy Mair has two brothers: Scott Mair, 49, and a half-brother, Duane St Louis, the product of his mother Mary’s second marriage with the late Reginald St Louis, who came from Grenada.
Speaking outside his house in Dewsbury on Thursday, St Louis, 41, said he couldn’t believe the news. “I was watching Sky News and I recognised him in handcuffs on the ground. It felt like a dream. I just couldn’t believe he’d do something like that,” he said. “I phoned my mum and she was watching too. She tried to phone his mobile but couldn’t get through and she knew something was up.” Mair last visited his mother on Wednesday night to help her tune her TV, he said.
St Louis said Mair had Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): “He was obsessed with washing himself. He would scrub his skin with Brillo pads.”
He insisted his brother had never expressed any racist views and seemed fine having a mixed-race sibling. Neither did he have any strong political views that St Louis was aware of.
Mair had been volunteering for the past few years at a school for children with disabilities, he said.
St Louis said he had a good relationship with his brother, but that Mair would fight with Scott, his younger, full brother, from their mother’s first marriage. Scott has spent “half his life in jail”, said St Louis, while Thomas has never been in trouble with the police, he claimed.
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Mair’s mother, Mary, said she was too upset to speak on Thursday, but her neighbours talked of their shock at the news.
One woman, who asked not to be named, said Mair was a “devoted son” who did his mum’s shopping twice a week and would bring two carrier bags around on foot, before walking several miles up the hill back to his house. He had visited last on Wednesday, she said.
She insisted it was “totally out of character” and that he had never been in trouble with police before. She said he “practically lived in the library. He was obsessed with books. His house is full of them”.
Another neighbour said he saw Mair and his mother out in the garden potting plants together just last week.
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Nick Gannon, 33, who lived two doors down from Tommy Mair – the man named locally as the suspected killer – knew him since he was 10 years old.
“It’s shocking. He were a quiet guy, you would not think it of him. He would cut elderly people’s grass voluntarily. There were no reason to think he would be capable of something like this.
“He was friendly. If you said hello to him, he would say hello back. He was not aggressive or anything. He wasn’t frightening.”
Trump seems to be doing bad I guess? I would've thought the speech after the shooting would help him but I guess not.
Anyway thought this was interesting. Google Fiber going to go to Dallas, would be the biggest city they've gone to. AT&T, Comcast and Verizon could use some real competition.
https://www.engadget.com/2016/06/15/google-fiber-could-bring-its-speedy-internet-to-dallas/
Anyway thought this was interesting. Google Fiber going to go to Dallas, would be the biggest city they've gone to. AT&T, Comcast and Verizon could use some real competition.
https://www.engadget.com/2016/06/15/google-fiber-could-bring-its-speedy-internet-to-dallas/
Related to past discussion about America's poor being fat ass all hell ..major additional cost to health care etc... Philly first city to pass a soda tax... Sugar slowly becoming the new tobacco..
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America's hidden epidemic: food addiction
Katie Couric hosts a panel on food addiction with tennis champion Monica Seles, interventionist Brad Lamm and Yahoo Finance Markets Correspondent Nicole Sinclair
Yahoo Finance By Nicole Sinclair 3 hours ago
You may have heard the word "bingeing" used casually. People binge on food, alcohol, or even a series on Netflix (NFLX). But Binge Eating Disorder, or B.E.D., is the most common eating disorder in the US. It impacts almost 3 million Americans, making it more common than anorexia and bulimia combined.
And it may be vastly underreported.
B.E.D. was only recognized as an official disorder in 2013, which is when it was added to the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
For years, eating disorders were classified into one of three groups—anorexia, bulimia, and “eating disorder not otherwise specified,” making it difficult for individuals with B.E.D. to seek treatment covered by insurance.
B.E.D. includes bingeing on average at least once a week for three months and feeling that one’s eating is out of control during a binge. Individuals with B.E.D. don’t routinely try to “undo” their excessive eating with extreme actions like throwing up or over-exercising.
While the exact cause of B.E.D. is unknown, certain theories suggest that adults with the disease may have differences in brain chemistry that could reduce activity in impulse control-related parts of the brain, increasing the “wanting”of a particular food. There is evidence that family history and certain life experiences may also play a role.
The food industry—including names like Mondelez (MDLZ), Coca-Cola (KO), and General Mills (GIS)—has come under fire for the role it plays in making food more addictive as well, including investing in recipes that keep consumers wanting more.
On Thursday, Philadelphia passed a sugar tax. Several studies have related sugar addiction to more commonly-discussed addictive substances, including cocaine. But analysts have included that sugar taxes wouldn’t impact the overall growth of the sugar industry, especially from developing regions with growing middle classes, like Brazil and China.
B.E.D. has also received more focus in recent years, especially as one-third of Americans are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Global News Anchor Katie Couric hosted a panel on B.E.D. to discuss some of the most important aspects of the disease.
Monica Seles became the youngest number 1 tennis player in the world at age 17 and won 9 Grand Slam championships throughout her career, yet she struggled with binge eating disorder over the course of her career. She’s been outspoken about her struggles with binge eating disorder throughout her successful tennis career and joined Couric to discuss her journey.ABC News Correspondent Mara Schiavocampo also shared her story on her struggle with B.E.D. before losing 90 pounds.
Brad Lamm, an interventionist who founded one of the few treatment clinics for the disorder, Breathe Life Healing Centers, discussed the scope of the disease and treatment remedies.
And I discussed how the industry may have contributed to the problem and the role insurance companies are playing.
Nicole Sinclair is Markets Correspondent for Yahoo Finance.
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America's hidden epidemic: food addiction
Katie Couric hosts a panel on food addiction with tennis champion Monica Seles, interventionist Brad Lamm and Yahoo Finance Markets Correspondent Nicole Sinclair
Yahoo Finance By Nicole Sinclair 3 hours ago
You may have heard the word "bingeing" used casually. People binge on food, alcohol, or even a series on Netflix (NFLX). But Binge Eating Disorder, or B.E.D., is the most common eating disorder in the US. It impacts almost 3 million Americans, making it more common than anorexia and bulimia combined.
And it may be vastly underreported.
B.E.D. was only recognized as an official disorder in 2013, which is when it was added to the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
For years, eating disorders were classified into one of three groups—anorexia, bulimia, and “eating disorder not otherwise specified,” making it difficult for individuals with B.E.D. to seek treatment covered by insurance.
B.E.D. includes bingeing on average at least once a week for three months and feeling that one’s eating is out of control during a binge. Individuals with B.E.D. don’t routinely try to “undo” their excessive eating with extreme actions like throwing up or over-exercising.
While the exact cause of B.E.D. is unknown, certain theories suggest that adults with the disease may have differences in brain chemistry that could reduce activity in impulse control-related parts of the brain, increasing the “wanting”of a particular food. There is evidence that family history and certain life experiences may also play a role.
The food industry—including names like Mondelez (MDLZ), Coca-Cola (KO), and General Mills (GIS)—has come under fire for the role it plays in making food more addictive as well, including investing in recipes that keep consumers wanting more.
On Thursday, Philadelphia passed a sugar tax. Several studies have related sugar addiction to more commonly-discussed addictive substances, including cocaine. But analysts have included that sugar taxes wouldn’t impact the overall growth of the sugar industry, especially from developing regions with growing middle classes, like Brazil and China.
B.E.D. has also received more focus in recent years, especially as one-third of Americans are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Global News Anchor Katie Couric hosted a panel on B.E.D. to discuss some of the most important aspects of the disease.
Monica Seles became the youngest number 1 tennis player in the world at age 17 and won 9 Grand Slam championships throughout her career, yet she struggled with binge eating disorder over the course of her career. She’s been outspoken about her struggles with binge eating disorder throughout her successful tennis career and joined Couric to discuss her journey.ABC News Correspondent Mara Schiavocampo also shared her story on her struggle with B.E.D. before losing 90 pounds.
Brad Lamm, an interventionist who founded one of the few treatment clinics for the disorder, Breathe Life Healing Centers, discussed the scope of the disease and treatment remedies.
And I discussed how the industry may have contributed to the problem and the role insurance companies are playing.
Nicole Sinclair is Markets Correspondent for Yahoo Finance.
Yeah I saw Katie Couric's piece on that.
I get why people think passing a soda tax is stupid, but if you're going to subsidize healthcare costs to the level that we do in the US then you have to find a way to make people care about their health.
Once the government picks up the check for peoples health then there is a lot less incentive to be healthy.
I get why people think passing a soda tax is stupid, but if you're going to subsidize healthcare costs to the level that we do in the US then you have to find a way to make people care about their health.
Once the government picks up the check for peoples health then there is a lot less incentive to be healthy.
About time too. Sugary drinks have wreaked havoc with societys health
I aint no tree hugger or health freak but I regard that stuff as a serious junk food health issue
It's a bit of a pain because many of us enjoy a bit of it now and then, but because an increasing number of people guzzle huge amounts of that shit it's really fucking them up
I started on it about 8 years ago, 50cents for 2 litres of cola, chilled down and used to wash down my dinner, very tasty and satisfying. Within a month I had developed a proper pot belly, a new experience for me....(wtf is that doing there!?!)
So I gave it up and my belly went away, luckily for me I'm a nicotine addict and not addicted to junk food.
I still think about it years later though because it's "so nice to wash down a meal with", it seems to help make you feel psychologically satisfied, surprisingly powerful stuff
I aint no tree hugger or health freak but I regard that stuff as a serious junk food health issue
It's a bit of a pain because many of us enjoy a bit of it now and then, but because an increasing number of people guzzle huge amounts of that shit it's really fucking them up
I started on it about 8 years ago, 50cents for 2 litres of cola, chilled down and used to wash down my dinner, very tasty and satisfying. Within a month I had developed a proper pot belly, a new experience for me....(wtf is that doing there!?!)
So I gave it up and my belly went away, luckily for me I'm a nicotine addict and not addicted to junk food.
I still think about it years later though because it's "so nice to wash down a meal with", it seems to help make you feel psychologically satisfied, surprisingly powerful stuff
Yeah soda terrible
i grew up typical American kid pounding mountain dews through college.. I'm probably sterile at this point lmao.. Once old age, metabolism, and thinking more about health caught up to me I kicked the habit ... Now I just drink unsweet tea for my caffeine fix..
i grew up typical American kid pounding mountain dews through college.. I'm probably sterile at this point lmao.. Once old age, metabolism, and thinking more about health caught up to me I kicked the habit ... Now I just drink unsweet tea for my caffeine fix..
Boris Johnston is the big cannon for the leave vote, without him they wouldn't have a hope.
Born in NY NY, multilingual and as slippery as an eel, he's got that indefinable political quality which can draw in undecided voters at the last moment, people who "just don't know" vote for him as "the most interesting option" and he's already been voted Mayor for multiracial London (which covers 20 million people out of a total population of 60 million)
As long as the Boris factor exists it ain't over until it's over
Born in NY NY, multilingual and as slippery as an eel, he's got that indefinable political quality which can draw in undecided voters at the last moment, people who "just don't know" vote for him as "the most interesting option" and he's already been voted Mayor for multiracial London (which covers 20 million people out of a total population of 60 million)
As long as the Boris factor exists it ain't over until it's over
