Global warming = means to collect even more taxes on the basis of saving the planet.
Good on VW - at least it doesn't operate in a country where the PM sheds tears that the earth is coming to an end in or around 2050 yet whose government plans to open even more airports to deal with increased passenger traffic, nor has financial institutions offering 57 year mortgages so soon after the declaration that the end of the world is nigh...:-)
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Absolutely agree with you stuartli and the fact that VW are investing in technology such as this means good things for the car buying public in my view - more reliable products as cold/hot starting/running issues get resolved quickly.
As you say good on em.
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You seem to have missed the part where it says the upper limit of the temperature range is 150 degrees celcius. In global warming terms that's the most pessimistic estimate I've seen so far.
Yes, I'm kidding.
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I hope they check the air-conditioning units at those temps.
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Good for VW,
You have to laugh though at "Global warming" ( refering to TB) A few years back it was fears of a new "ice age".
As though it were * normal* for the earths temperature to stay the same constantly, when it would be abnormal if the UK were not a lush tropical or desert zone ( again) in the future. To say nothing of the norm of further ice ages.
Reminds me of a Sunday newspaper article a while ago where the writer was concerned about " Global water shortages" . written in a way that suggested fresh water was a *global* finate resource, (such as crude oil. and demonstrating a failure to understand the water cycle.)
My Green friend down the pub says cars and industry are causing *global warming*
But there were none of these industrial/automotive factors involved when the Vikings colonised a *warming* Greenland for a while but then failed to thrive there due to a further cool spell.
At least some actual evidence that if we all gave up cars and a modern industrial society, that global warming ( and cooling) is the norm and that Volkswagen is right in putting some *energy* into trying to give us more reliable cars :)
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You are aware that northern-hemisphere ice-ages and global temperature increases are intrinsically linked, right?
If the Earth's temperature increases beyond a certain point, a (mini) ice age is almost inevitable.
It probably is the case that the seriousness of the situation is being exaggerated, and it's fair to say that there is naff all we can do about it. But the human race owes it to itself to sort out the emissions problem because once China/India come on board, if we don't have a non-polluting energy system in place, the pollution is going to make life unbearable, never mind the warming.
Still as I say I couldn't care less -- I have no sprogs and I'll be dead most likely in 2050.
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The planet has experienced colder and warmer climates over periods of thousands of years.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost_fair
for instance.
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"You are aware that northern-hemisphere ice-ages and global temperature increases are intrinsically linked, right?"
My point is that the cycle is normal even without an industrial world.
Problem is, re " The Human race owes it to itself to sort out the emmisions problem"
Collective accountability never works out.
(as evidenced by the sink full of dirty pots in the office sink)
And from a UK point of view, as we produce only 2 per cent of the worlds pollution, it doesnt *really* matter what we do.
How they must laugh in the US and China to hear TB "taking the lead" on this issue.
We could of course build Nuclear power plants to fully cover the UK`s needs. ( no oil/ coal/gas pollution)
Reduce those power needs by the many means available, run around in those small electric cars and in general reduce our standard of living.
But China alone would take up the slack, as it were, in just a few months.
India and especially China are already "on board" by the way :)
Anyway, pollution can`t get much worse than when my generation were kids. Yellow coal fire smogs, with subsequent chest infections and with the local GP saying " everyone in the district has raw sinus edges due to domestic coal fire pollution".
And cars, black streaks on the paintwork, after rain, that could only be washed off with *hot* water with plenty of washing up liquid.
( no chance with car shampoos)
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