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[Ya-ta Boy]

There are 5 (by my count) different threads on climate change here on the front page.

Has the time come to ask the mods to consolidate them all into one sticky?

I vote: Yes

[mises]

Yes. We don't need a new thread every time the Guardian posts a new editorial.

[Axiom]

Agreed.

I think some of the warmist fundamentalists were opposed to the title of the initial thread.

Any suggestions for a new title that would make everyone happy.


However, if the thread I started about the reaction in the UN to Charez and Mugabe is included in your "5 different threads" then I disagree.
I thing this was quite a different topic. This took me to a whole different level of angry.

[mises]

[Axiom]

[Sergio Stefanuto]

[mises]

[Ya-ta Boy]

[mises]

Really kids, one thread is enough.

[Big_Bird]

No, I disagree. The Warming Conspiracy Thread is now about 52 pages. Way too long. Once threads reach that length, they are just too unwieldy and take far too long to wade through.

Secondly, my threads address different issues.

One thread asked how the recent scandal disproves anthropogenic warming. It's a very specific narrow question.

Another thread (the title and OP of which I intend to change - too busy today) is a place where I invite posters to post information that throws light on the 'credentials' (or lack of them) of famous climate deniers like Ian Plimer - and to show how their work has been discredited or thrown into serious question. On that thread I will also look at what the 'deniers' use as their main 'proofs' of their position, like the so called 'hockey stick scandal' and the supposed Mediaeval Warming Period (in which the global temperature never rose higher than those we see in the early 20th century).

Climate change is a huge subject - I don't see why it can't have parallel threads that examine different facets of the topic. It's also very topical right now - the failed Copenhagen conference, the scandal of the hacked emails, the significant dangers it poses to the human race (trivial point) etc. And I don't see how we should all be forced to post on one huge enormous thread that is going to run into hundreds of pages. How many of you kept reading the creation versus evolution thread that just kept going and going? I stopped after 20 pages. It needed too much time and dedication to follow the different strands and arguments. If you want to stop me discussing the subject (which perhaps you do) then amalgamating it all into one enormous thread is the best way to do it, because I just don't have the patience for enormous 1000 page threads.

Lastly, I don't see why you feel this deep need to regulate the current affairs board in this way. Have you nothing better to do? If you're not interested in the debates Yata-boy, just don't bloody read them. It is THAT simple.

[Ya-ta Boy]

So this is now about you.

[bacasper]

Big Bird, you appear to be splitting hairs. The JFK and 9/11 threads are enormously complex, yet we are keeping it to one thread there. If anything, those issues deserve several threads each.

But I do buy your complexity argument to an extent. In fact, I would support the idea of more than one thread for the climate4 issue if we could have more for the stickies.

[Big_Bird]

[Gopher]

And I think he knows that, too. He is, per usual, playing the smug card.

[Big_Bird]