Wearing my Moderator hat please can I gently say a few things, most especially for the benefit of any newcomers to TLF,
1. New users cannot post links initially, but after a certain number of posts linking is automatically enabled.
2. Advertising in any way shape or form is prohibited, and will very quickly attract robust Moderator attention (via the Alert system from TLF Users, i.e. the little ! icon/button in the top right of any post) if it takes place, as will any other forms of undesirable behaviour.
3. This Oil & Gas & Energy board (
viewforum.php?f=16) is for polite discussion of relevant investment matters. Whilst Climate Change is peripherally touched upon it should not directly be central to anything on this board. If anyone wishes to discuss Climate Change then I started a thread over on The Natural World (
viewforum.php?f=59) which is as good a place as any other for Climate Change matters (see
viewtopic.php?f=59&t=24728), or users can start their own threads over there. Alternatively the Science board (
viewforum.php?f=83) tends to slice & dice quite finely.
5. I quote from Wiki that,
"The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) is a lobby group in the United Kingdom whose stated aims are to challenge "extremely damaging and harmful policies" envisaged by governments to mitigate anthropogenic global warming.[2] The GWPF as well as some of its prominent members have been characterized as promoting climate change denial.[3][4] In 2014, when the Charity Commission ruled that the GWPF had breached rules on impartiality, a non-charitable organisation called the "Global Warming Policy Forum" was created as a wholly owned subsidiary, to do lobbying that a charity could not. The GWPF website carries an array of articles "sceptical" of scientific findings of anthropogenic global warming and its impacts." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Wa ... Foundationwhich suggests that the OP may have an agenda in coming here. In that respect point #2, #3 and #7 below are especially brought to everybody's attention.
6. It is permissible - indeed encouraged - for anybody making serious claims of a financial nature to set out their sums. This is an investment board and we would expect that. Links are not required to do sums in public.
7. Politics is quite another matter. If there is a political debate then the entire thread that is affected will ordinarily get exiled to the dungeons of Polite Discussions (
viewforum.php?f=63) as, ordinarily, it swiftly becomes unrealistic to sort out the evidence-based wheat from the evidence-less chaff.
8. There are a wide range of users of this board, with considerable experience of investment, finance, economics, earth sciences, engineering, and all forms of the energy industry. We all wish to learn from each other and share information with each other in a mutually supportive and beneficial manner. The more controversial the point you wish to make the more you should expect to be able to substantiate it. If you are merely trolling then expect to either get banned, or relegated to the dungeons of Polite Discussions.
9. Moderation is not permissible as a subject for discussion on this board.
kind regards, dspp
Moderator Message:
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