It is hot over here!

[Master]

Broadcaster and former England striker Gary Lineker has locked horns with boxer Anthony Fowler on the topic of climate change.

The 61-year-old has been vocal on the matter in the past, while also remaining reluctant to stay out of any topic he sees fit to discuss. He recently responded to resignations from Boris Johnson's cabinet, for example, while also sharing his opinion on Mick Lynch's appearance on Question Time.

After speaking up about the human response to climate change, Lineker was met with a number of responses, with Fowler among those to chip in. However, the ex-footballer was blunt in his response to the Commonwealth Games gold medalist.

"Terrifying that we’re not doing everything possible immediately to address climate change," Lineker tweeted on Saturday. "A catastrophic mistake."

The post had received more than 300 quote-tweets by midday on Sunday. One of those was from Fowler, who asked "How much are they paying you to push this agenda?".

"What? Not a single penny," was Lineker's response. "The reward would be a future for my children and their children."

Lineker wasn't the only person to respond to Fowler, who won gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. "The agenda of science and reality?" was one of the responses.

"It's not an agenda; it's just a simple fact," said another. "We don't do something; we wreck the only home humankind has - if it's not already too late."

The 31-year-old boxer, who also won bronze at the 2013 World Championships, has a 16-2 professional level. His most recent win came in February this year.

Lineker's stance on climate change is nothing new. Last summer, the presenter took aim at a BBC article which suggested there were "positives" to climate change, tweeting "this has to be a spoof".

In a separate tweet on Sunday morning, he made his stance even more clear. "One group has a vested interest in our survival. One group has a vested interest in their bank accounts," he said. Believe the scientists, not the climate change deniers."

This year, meanwhile, he praised climate protestors who drew attention to the situation at the British Grand Prix. "If it’s not already too late, history will look back very favourably on these people," he said.

Lineker's comments weren't universally popular, though, with former Formula 1 driver Martin Brundle among those to hit back. "Gary please don’t encourage this reckless behaviour," Brundle replied.

"They’d have been sliced into 100 pieces and fans, marshals and drivers were wholly at risk of injury and death. We already had one lucky escape. I totally 100% support freedom of speech and opinion, but do it responsibly."

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[Denilson3.0]

And this is why I talk about racism - white supremacy so much because it's the white supremacists that's fkin the earth up.

America is amongst the biggest polluters in the world and has increased their greenhouse gas emissions. Unsustainability definitively means that civilisation is a failure. India and China burn coal for the USA. Brazil and Indonesia burn rainforests for the USA. The Earth warms. Storms surge. Cities choke.

The Earth is running out of soil. Arable land is dwindling and that the arable land available per person is falling. The very soil ppl lives depend on. The continual ploughing of fields, combined with heavy use of fertilizers, has degraded soils across the world is done by who ? Soil erosion is now far greater than soil formation.

It takes around 500 years for just 2.5cm of topsoil to be created amid unimpeded ecological changes. Soil is a living thing just like cattle. But unlike cattle, if you treat the soil right it will live forever

Right now the water is messed up....only a small % of it is drinkable....thanks to what people ?

The air is messed up, thanks to what people ?
The earth is messed up, thanks to what people ?

Now they are raising hell about the dangers of all the space junk up there...thanks to what people ?

This is critical.

Everybody needs air, water and land in order to survive and it is white people that have done this.

And who get's the worst of it ?

Black ppl.

Black people are more likely to live in the congested communities that experience the highest smog and toxic concentration thanks to fossil fuel use. And those heat waves connected to climate change kill black people more. And now the agriculture is fked up and not their meeting their outputs due to global warming (caused by the white supremacistst) and African nations pay billions yearly because of it. Even though the contribution to fossil fuel emissions by black people in Africa is minimal

Warming is killing a lot of people now, and most of them are black or non white.

Former World Bank chief economist (and former President of Harvard University) Lawrence Summers, said in a 1991 memo that the West should encourage polluting industries to locate in “less developed countries,” because “health impairing pollution should be done in the country with the lowest cost, which will be the country with the lowest wages.”

He said “I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that,” and that, in his estimation, “under-populated countries in Africa are vastly under-polluted.”

He coded it up but he was basically saying "Dump all our sh*t in the places where blks live"

And now there's gonna be an energy crunch, white supremacist don't want to move to renewable energy (because it's less money) so the white supremacist do more fked up sh*t like drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or building more refineries and drilling in the hurricane places Mexico.

And they wonder why were having all these Hurricanes ?

[TitoFan]

[Master]

I did say it was hot over here. Runways and tracks are melting. People are hot and bothered. We are going to hit 40 degrees for the first time ever!

[Mark TKO]

The end is nigh

[NoSavingByTheBell]

it's 44 degrees Celsius here in South Texas so I dont really think that is hot over there.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

[Spicoli]

I did say it was hot over here. Runways and tracks are melting. People are hot and bothered. We are going to hit 40 degrees for the first time ever!

Just be glad you don't have the constant 75 percent humidity to go with it. What's the rough average of folks with central a/c in the UK? Wanna see society lose its mind, crash the grid and take our precious acs in this heat. People forget how to act real quick.

[palmerq]

Air conditioning is pretty rare in Britain, a lot of people will gett cooked, 40 degrees is just hot anywhere...add in people living in blocks of flats made with miserable British weather in mind and not many air-conditioners and it'll be a miserable time..


Lucky for me this part of Canada after the 45 last year has only gone past thirty for three days this summer, low 20s right now

[Mark TKO]

We're not equipped for it over here

We don't have air conditioning - maybe in hotels and the top 1%ers have it installed in their 7\8 figure homes but I'd say even that is just 2% of UK homes at best.

I live in a town house. Top floor was 32 yesterday, middle 29. Have relocated to bottom which was bearable.

considered sleeping in garden at one point

Crazy to think its going to drop 15 degrees tomorrow.....

[Master]

It is the not sleeping that is the worst aspect of it. I am in air conditioned office so can survive in the day.

[Memphis]

it's 44 degrees Celsius here in South Texas so I don't really think that is hot over there.

We ain't in Texas Toto. Which is why it is seriously hot over here.

I know it's a cliché but it's not like being on holiday is it. No pool to dip in and out of as and when you fancy. No air conditioned hotel room. We're no better equipped on home soil to deal with the heat than we are to deal with ice/cold/snow.

It rained whilst I was out this afternoon. It was awesome.

[Spicoli]

Figured they'd be off loading pallets of ice on every other corner over there by now. It's funny seeing the headlines all over social media and the following "well it's sweltering hell here in (enter random U.S State here) so there. Our acs have us spoiled . Lots of diy things you can try if the heat lasts. Don't laugh below, we do what we gotta do to get a good nights sleep

[Kirkland Laing]

Going to get worse in the coming decades too. We need a massive WW2 style debt financed spend into new energy tech. The US, EU and the top next few economies issue a few trillion dollars worth of investment bonds to fund new technologies with a return on the investment on top of interest. It would cost governments nothing in real terms in terms of interest payments and return on investment would come from the profits made by the technologies that ended up working and producing clean energy.

We could sell this in every country, even to American Republican voters as a national security issue and also a future of abundant cheap energy. Being able to charge your vehicle for a few hundred miles for a few dollars would go down well with voters right now. Not to mention millions of new jobs etc.

That's the least worst option we have. If we do it we're less fucked in the future this way.

JUst as an example Americans were asked if they were worried about the long term effects of global warming. About eighty percent said yes. Then they were asked what level of taxes they'd be prepared to pay to combat the problem. Only fifty percent would pay a dollar a week. Only twenty percent would pay ten dollars a month.

There's no way to do this without new tech and we need it yesterday. We have to find out a way to sell the big investment to rich country voters or we're fucked.

[TIC]

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