Greta

[jobjockey]

The silence from Greta has been deafening,
the world is so close to a world war that will
destroy our planet and she is still worrying about our carbon footprints.

[Khandro]

jim; //That's because I didn't.//

Humble, genuine apologies.

[Gromit]

It is weekend, so the inconsistent deleting of posts is de facto.

[jim360]

That's as maybe. Still, let me remind people that discussion of posts/comments being deleted is itself against the rules, so let's end it here.

[mushroom25]

// We have already achieved it. //

depends on your measure of achievement. not sure i'd agree that 41% represents total achievement, especially when that accounts only for the current usage of electricity, and doesn't factor in the extra electricity required to make all homes all-electric, or the extra electricity needed to charge millions of electric vehicles. and there's still no answer to the terraced house dweller's electric car charging conundrum, if they have to park 500m from their house, and a host of other issues that still have no solution.

we are years away from an end to reliance on Russian fossil fuels.

[Gromit]

mushroom25

We do not have any reliance on Russia. We buy 4% of our gas from Russia, usually for a brief time during the winter peak.

// and doesn't factor in the extra electricity required to make all homes all-electric, or the extra electricity needed to charge millions of electric vehicles. //

The 2020 figure does. What our future needs will be, and how much future renewable energy will be generated, is unknown.

[Peter Pedant]

mornin gromit
Jim is still in his poncey mood....
how goes it in U, and greta's brayne?
Byelorussia maypile in BUT I am not sure what difference that will make ( er to G of course)

[jim360]

It ill behoves anyone to accuse your humble interlocutor of a poncy atttitude :P

[Peter Pedant]

greta agrees with me

the deletion of threads is de facto
no - wrong language and wrong sentiment
the random deletion of posts is de rigueur

Greta - ooooo yaaaaa ! ( Doris Day as a swedish massoozy in a Rock Hudson film) - thank you for getting down to here
I dont pretend to be sane at any time

[Peter Pedant]

at least Jim if Putin let3s off a nook
you can say - oh! I know exactly what the reactions are !

kray-zia - who was saying Fr is Poutine (poo-teen to us brits) because Putain means prostitute?
Bidon is bye-denne in French because Bidon is something you poss into - bidon-ville is a slum made out of jerry-cans or -- - - bidons

[Gromit]

Khandro,

Agreed.
Deletions tend to derail threads, and are an unnecessary distraction.
I have a solution. STOP DELETING!

[jim360]

As opposed to discussing deleted comments ad nauseam, which doesn't derail any threads at all...

The fact is that Site Rules prohibit such discussions. If you have complaints about deleted posts or comments, please direct them to ABEd.

[naomi24]

No points for guessing why this place is losing contributors.

[douglas9401]

I wonder if anybody knows who it was that had the original idea to convert all fuel dependence to the one most susceptible to the vagaries of the weather and, supplemental, why they weren't challenged at the time?

Absolute moronicosity.

[jim360]

It may or may not be a contributing factor, but on the other hand there are plenty of other reasons. For example, other sites have since sprung up with offer a similar service with a far larger userbase; this site's demographic skews towards older people (and is relatively UK-centric at that); several sub-communities on AB seem to have just become smaller naturally anyway. On the latter, when I first joined this site it was specifically because of the Listener Crossword discussion, which regularly attracted 80-100 comments a decade ago but now seems to have dwindled to the teens -- I don't think I myself have posted there for about six years, so it's not entirely due to members moving on altogether, but as far as I'm aware there are basically as many Listener solvers today as there were 10 years back, so it's simply a change on what websites people use.

And, besides, some of the loudest moaners about aggressive moderation on AB remain among its most active!

[Gromit]

^
Yeah. I expect you get hardly any complaints from people wh do not use the site ;-)

[ynnafymmi]

I dont know whether to believe this story or not,but someone told me that Greta has never been over to the biggest polluting country in the world,China.I find that hard to believe.Anyone know when Greta was last over there?

[THECORBYLOON]

Would they let her in?

[ToraToraTora]

^^^^ never she prefers to have a go at the Top climate change responders.