There's one in Iceland that's predicted to be huge and... unfortunately it's looking like it might be thinking about going off sometime soon.

On the other hand, methane vents at the bottom of the Atlantic have probably existed since the Atlantic was formed and I expect for quite a few billion years in other oceans at other times. The idea that they came into existence the moment we discovered them and that therefore they must be caused or influenced by Man, specifically a few parts per million of a trace gas that's regularly recycled by the biosphere in huge quantities and has been for a billion years, is completely ridiculous.

Don't be silly. There are at least 30 different versions of "what scientists think" about this issue. In other words they don't know. That isn't settled science is it.

No it doesn't because we haven't been measuring it long enough or accurately enough to know what the natural variation is. I honestly don't know what the hell is wrong with you people. Why can't you see these totally obvious points.

This is absurd. Generic programming, for example, is far better in C# than Java. Most of the stuff included with Java 5.0 was already present in C# 1.0.

That's the wrong side of the equation. What you should say is that it won out because a bunch of suits who make purchasing decisions got behind it. Don't blame the salesman.

It was just coming into favour when I left. When I was around it was Modula-2 and Eiffel (for OOP) at University. I have always found Java to be absolutely horrific in practice, being pretty much the worst of all worlds. Today C# is far superior, whatever you think about Microsoft, and it's a real shame that .NET was mishandled at birth in the way that it was.

People don't like to admit it but the existence of Nuclear weapons has prevented a major conflagration between the `big powers', at least since the Korean War (MacArthur wanted to use them there, his boss didn't).

I suppose it could be argued under existing anti-terrorism legislation, but then accidentally driving in a bus lane could be interpreted in that way too under these illiberal laws.

The point is though, that anyone who wanted to share or view this footage should be sectioned and locked away in a psychiatric hospital regardless.

The UK's deterrent isn't like France's really. The US supplies most of the Trident missile system with the UK putting its own warheads on (I think we still do that, at least we used to make them at Aldermaston). The thing is it's not really an independent deterrent. The UK doesn't need US permission before using it but it's almost totally dependent on US technology to launch and maintain it. Regardless the deterrent was really only design to guarantee that the UK could completely flatten Moscow in the event of Russian aggression against the UK. I'm not too sure such a capability is all that relevant any more.

This should certainly be modded up. As usual the press release has been somewhat distorted away from any actual claims made in the paper.

I think that's just to do with the fact that in the past men worked themselves into an early grave and had to retire later. I think I read somewhere recently that the difference between male and female life expectancy, in the West at least, is slowly converging to approximately the same value.

If you don't know what your error is, you haven't made a measurement. There's really not much more to be said.

I've not made that claim, no. The claim I'm making is that AGW is hopelessly over-hyped, that climate sensitivity is far lower than scientists assert, that 97% of scientists disagree with me but that's OK because 97% of climate models disagree with actual reality.

That last bit should concentrate your rather limited mind.

For example, Andrew Montford. Someone with scientific training. Certainly not a conspiracy theorist or a lunatic.

Also what the fuck is wrong with your brain? No, saying a given theory is wrong is certainly not another theory. If you don't understand science and how it works, why do you even have an opinion on this?

Totally bizarre.