No, the climate won't stay the same forever, regardless. I'm coming from acceptance of the general scientific findings of the great majority of climatologists, who think our continuing use of fossil fuels is going to lead to, and probably already has begun to lead to, serious trouble, and that whatever other climatological factors may or may not be involved, continuing use will lead to greater problems, some of which may arrive rather suddenly.
Vicar: Your logic does not establish 'therefore insignificant' in the present period, which the planet has not had before. Granted, the factors you mention have been important and still are, as every climatologist knows, no doubt better than you and I. Yet most climatologists still maintain that the human species has been screwing up the climate.
Explain.
Appreciate the contribution. I'm too lazy to dig up all the many, many scientific articles with contrary opinions, but scientists do this regularly among themselves and I generally trust them, unless I have specific reasons not to. Let us know if you do or don't, and why.
Anyway, I guess recent local weather can't be pinned down that accurately, at lest not yet. Tell me if you can do so, one way or the other.
there are numerous theories. What do most of them agree about concerning current climate change? Of course, it's not necessarily the majority of theories that will turn out to be correct, but evaluating them is beyond me, as I am not a climatologist. I must rely on the (usually honest) dialogue between those who are climatologists, and perhaps add doubts when there are obvious reasons to suspect (for political or economic reasons, for instance) the honesty or competence of any particular ones. Perhaps you can do better than this, but I don't know how.
Science is never about the knowledge of Absolute Truth, it's just about the best we've (they've) come up with so far. My obviously unprofessional opinion is that the world is getting warmer, and that the Industrial Revolution and its aftermath has a lot to do with this - whether recent local weather is a reflection of this, I don't know. Maybe somebody with more expertise can help here, maybe not.
When an article merely states that "experts" have some point of view, it is pretty unclear who the 'experts' are, how many they are, whether they represent a majority opinion of 'experts', whether the 'experts' consulted have been cherry-picked, etc. I'm not familiar with the Daily Star online, but this is bad journalism.
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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.
As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.
Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.
Too bourgeois.
Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.
Ain't no flies on Salvador's.
Going remote for new year: Celebrating on the Nanding River
发布者I went with 3 other westerners to a Wa festival in Ximeng about 8-10 years ago - one of our number knew somebody who knew somebody, and the 4 of us got free hotel rooms (there couldn't have been more than about 5 other westerners at most there, and we were obviously invited so that the CCBC camera and other coverage would perhaps appeal to more foreign tourists). The festival was essentially a tourist show, very well choreographed and so forth, enjoyable, not 'authentic', with scores, perhaps over a hundred, of group dancers in a big outdoor amphitheatre which sat several thousands. Evening, in an indoor theatre, there was a play featuring the Wa, supposed to show their rise from ugly-barbarian savagery thanks to the arrival of PLA soldiers. Point is, this thank-God-for-the-PLA theme was embarrassingly overdone, reminded me of some of the more cardboard elements of dance of the Cultural R. period, and I almost walked out, as it seemed to me so single-issue and propagandistic that I felt it amounted to pandering to Han-cultural attitudes about the inferiority of the non-Han, especially the Wa - it was all Party propaganda about the end of headhunting etc, otherwise nothing really about the Wa. I wonder if this emphasis is particularly strong in such tourist performances concerning the Wa, given that they present easy targets for such a treatment. Yeah, I've read that certainly many Wa were indeed glad to see the end of headhunting, and I'm not necessarily disputing that it has been good that their long resistance, carried out from their mountains, to incorporation into a wider national society had finally come to an end back in the 1950s - however, the show I saw reminded me of the kind of thing that had once entertained the prejudices of 'White' people in the old American South, or in South Africa.
Popular night market locations closed, ban appears permanent
发布者Wouldn't worry about that happening, Lester - I've seen no indications of it around town.
Popular night market locations closed, ban appears permanent
发布者I take cloudtrapezer' comment, or anyway most of it. As for moving out of the city, another choice would be to use public transportation or a bicycle within it as much as possible.
Premier Li Keqiang visits Yunnan, stressing anti-poverty measures
发布者umm - capitalism/
Premier Li Keqiang visits Yunnan, stressing anti-poverty measures
发布者If Beijing wants to promote this they'd better do something about all the bloody hukou problems that have contributed to different classes of citizenship and have fueled China's capitalist rise by providing cheap labor with little recourse, thereby enabling rather serious economic differences so that the Chinese economy now competes 'successfully' with that of other countries on the usual tilted table of global capitalim.