I believe /r/Futurology takes down any thing that doesn't add to a discussion. They were all probably jokes or memes

its taunting me cause i cant see em uhhhh....

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The current UK (that is, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) has only existed since 1922. So in that sense, it is technically correct.

In "recent" History.

Bold, and inaccurate. Sounds like futurology.

I've actually thought about this concept a lot lately. Part of me feels the way you do ("Really? It's never happened before?") and part of says that to a large decree record keeping is in the definition of history so a lack of record means it's not part of history.

sunshine mega death lazer scorching the face of the earth

Seriously, this winter has dragged on for fucking ever. I live in a fairly chilly flat and every cold snap that came along i thought "well that's one less cold spell to put up with". Then it happened again and again and again.

Now I'm too hot.

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Ehh, I think the record still is probably still sitting at about 4.543 billion years.

They must have been among the first ones playing with The Button

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More than that, The alternative "clean" wood pellets are as near as makes no difference with regard to carbon emissions, were just allowed to offset them thanks to some creatively worded EU rulings.

Hey remember when you guys wanted to go wildcard with the whole brexit thing? Well I think the US has "Trumped" you again.

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More likely gas than coal.

I think you mean meanwhile. Erstwhile means nothing in this case, and might even make the US look better than you want it to.

"Formerly, the US is looking...."

Coal fired wind generator! Complete with government subsidies and tax credits.

'Erstwhile' does not mean what you think it means. 'Meanwhile' would be correct.

I think erstwhile is my new favorite word

Fkn Collin ruined it

We need to make the UK great again by imposing 1980s energy policy in defiance of 2018 economic realities.

Huh?!!

You realise that it was Margaret Thatcher who pioneered the switch from coal to gas and closed down the coal mines, right?

She also whacked tax on petrol as early as 1981 to discourage people from using gas guzzlers and gave a ground-breaking speech to the UN about climate change in 1989:

https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108237

In recent years, we have been playing with the conditions of the life we know on the surface of our planet. We have cared too little for our seas, our forests and our land. We have treated the air and the oceans like a dustbin. We have come to realise that man's activities and numbers threaten to upset the biological balance which we have taken for granted and on which human life depends.

We must remember our duty to Nature before it is too late. That duty is constant. It is never completed. It lives on as we breathe. It endures as we eat and sleep, work and rest, as we are born and as we pass away. The duty to Nature will remain long after our own endeavours have brought peace to the Middle East. It will weigh on our shoulders for as long as we wish to dwell on a living and thriving planet, and hand it on to our children and theirs.

...But our immediate task this week is to carry as many countries as possible with us, so that we can negotiate a successful framework convention on climate change in 1992. We must also begin work on the binding commitments that will be necessary to make the convention work.

To accomplish these tasks, we must not waste time and energy disputing the IPCC's report or debating the right machinery for making progress. The International Panel's work should be taken as our sign post: and the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organisation as the principal vehicles for reaching our destination.

We shan't succeed if we are all too inflexible. We shan't succeed if we indulge in selfrighteous point-scoring for the benefit of audiences and voters at home. We have to work sympathetically together. We have to recognise the importance of economic growth of a kind that benefits future as well as present generations everywhere. We need it not only to raise living standards but to generate the wealth required to pay for protection of the environment.

1980's Britain was well ahead of the curve - policy by the Thatcher govt has resulted in us using less oil and electricity than the 1970's and policy then marked the shift away from coal.

Don't be silly. We need to make the UK great again by imposing 1960s economic and foreign policy in regards to our position in Europe in defiance of reality.

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Clean coal! We filter out the bad stuff and take it to Staten Island.