If people can call for shariah and burn poppies then why can't people say what they think of them?

I don't think you should do anything to anyone calling for Shariah law, what I do want though is for a degree of equality to work here. If people can call for shariah and burn poppies then why can't people say what they think of them? I think if you're going to allow for one, you must allow for the other. If you wish to ban one, you must ban the other. I think criminalising speech breeds a worse hatred no matter what that speech would've entailed.

This.

If they want to do that, don't crack the shits when someone draws a comic about Mohammed.

-PB

Good luck making this argument to someone who cracks the shits over a drawing.

Scientists say the recent downturn in the rate of global warming will lead to lower temperature rises in the short-term.

Since 1998, there has been an unexplained "standstill" in the heating of the Earth's atmosphere.

Writing in Nature Geoscience, the researchers say this will reduce predicted warming in the coming decades.

But long-term, the expected temperature rises will not alter significantly.

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The most extreme projections are looking less likely than before”

Dr Alexander Otto
University of Oxford
The slowdown in the expected rate of global warming has been studied for several years now. Earlier this year, the UK Met Office lowered their five-year temperature forecast.

But this new paper gives the clearest picture yet of how any slowdown is likely to affect temperatures in both the short-term and long-term.

An international team of researchers looked at how the last decade would impact long-term, equilibrium climate sensitivity and the shorter term climate response.

Transient nature
Climate sensitivity looks to see what would happen if we doubled concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere and let the Earth's oceans and ice sheets respond to it over several thousand years.

Transient climate response is much shorter term calculation again based on a doubling of CO2.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported in 2007 that the short-term temperature rise would most likely be 1-3C (1.8-5.4F).

But in this new analysis, by only including the temperatures from the last decade, the projected range would be 0.9-2.0C.

"The hottest of the models in the medium-term, they are actually looking less likely or inconsistent with the data from the last decade alone," said Dr Alexander Otto from the University of Oxford.

"The most extreme projections are looking less likely than before."

The authors calculate that over the coming decades global average temperatures will warm about 20% more slowly than expected.

But when it comes to the longer term picture, the authors say their work is consistent with previous estimates. The IPCC said that climate sensitivity was in the range of 2.0-4.5C.

Ocean storage
This latest research, including the decade of stalled temperature rises, produces a range of 0.9-5.0C.

"It is a bigger range of uncertainty," said Dr Otto.

"But it still includes the old range. We would all like climate sensitivity to be lower but it isn't."

The researchers say the difference between the lower short-term estimate and the more consistent long-term picture can be explained by the fact that the heat from the last decade has been absorbed into and is being stored by the world's oceans.

Not everyone agrees with this perspective.

Prof Steven Sherwood, from the University of New South Wales, says the conclusion about the oceans needs to be taken with a grain of salt for now.

"There is other research out there pointing out that this storage may be part of a natural cycle that will eventually reverse, either due to El Nino or the so-called Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, and therefore may not imply what the authors are suggesting," he said.

The authors say there are ongoing uncertainties surrounding the role of aerosols in the atmosphere and around the issue of clouds.

"We would expect a single decade to jump around a bit but the overall trend is independent of it, and people should be exactly as concerned as before about what climate change is doing," said Dr Otto.

Is there any succour in these findings for climate sceptics who say the slowdown over the past 14 years means the global warming is not real?

"None. No comfort whatsoever," he said.

Nice work throwing "BBC backtracks on climate change" in there like it's the headline. #-o

Because it goes against their "one world government" "EU" "Earthians" agenda

Petrol bombing of Mosque in U.K.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22654435

Because 10 people saying/doing something stupid and 200,000 people ignoring them makes us the better people.
10 people saying/doing something stupid and 200,000 people abusing them for that turns us all into bullies and inspires hate crimes.

The hate crime and the bullying is happening because people can't have an open and frank discussion about racism without falling under the crime of "inciting racial hatred."

People can't have an open and frank discussion though. They're too stupid. RAther than having an "open" discussion they're trying to set a mosque on fire.

People can't have an open and frank discussion though. They're too stupid. RAther than having an "open" discussion they're trying to set a mosque on fire.

People can't have an open and frank discussion though. They're too stupid. RAther than having an "open" discussion they're trying to set a mosque on fire.

And I'm sick to death of the "most Muslims are not like that" argument. Everyone knows that. And yet people are getting killed in different parts of the world by people believing they're doing it for Allah. Something is pretty fked up there.

Revenge attacks are happening because they can't have an open discussion, because it's been swept under the carpet for years.

Are you sick to death of the same people that make the excuses about the Catholic Church? Everyone knows that not all Catholics rape children, of course... And yet children are still being rapped in different parts of the world that are then protected and shuffled around from dioceses to dioceses.

A pity that we can't have a frank and open discussion about child raping priests without being called "hateful atheists".

I disagree. These attacks happen because these people lack the intellectual tools and capacity to have an articulate discussion on the matter.

People who want to blow shit up aren't the kind of people who want to have a rational discussion. They already know all they need to know. Just ask them.

Are you sick to death of the same people that make the excuses about the Catholic Church? Everyone knows that not all Catholics rape children, of course... And yet children are still being rapped in different parts of the world that are then protected and shuffled around from dioceses to dioceses.

A pity that we can't have a frank and open discussion about child raping priests without being called "hateful atheists".

No matter how stupid you think these people are, sweeping all this under the carpet is creating an undercurrent of violence. More and more ordinary people are becoming a part of it. If these people were allowed to speak their views, they would not need to resort to violence.

Even if they could speak openly about it, what would it achieve? Y'know, other than a Dolly Magazine style verbal cleansing. And probably inspire these meat-heads into more violent actions.