Climate Change Discussion now open - please read before posting

[Paul]

As you may have noticed, we've made some changes to the climate change area. It is now split into 4 areas - General discussion, Latest reports/events, Green Living and A beginners perspective. This should provide more relevant areas to discuss every aspect whole climate change.

Another very important change we have made to this area of the forum is to introduce a code of conduct which every member posting into here must abide by. I've copied it below and it is available to view from every forum within the climate change area, so please ensure you have read it and understand your responsibilities within it prior to posting. We will be closely monitoring to make sure every member is taking note of it, and will act swiftly to deal with any member who does not.

All users of the climate change / environment area on the Netweather forum must abide by the code of conduct.

Any member not abiding by this code will be formally warned by the forum team. Once warned, any member who breaks the code again will be stopped from using the environment area for a period of 1 month. On their return the member will be permanently banned from the environment area if any further posts are made which are outside of the code of conduct.

1. Users must stay on topic within discussions - some natural drift is expected but wildly off topic posts due to users 'arguing' over petty points will not be tolerated.

2. Users must accept and understand that even when another member has a totally different point of view, they are entitled to that view and to discuss it without fear of being 'shouted down' or belittled.

3. Being closed minded and entrenched within a viewpoint makes it impossible for anyone to discuss a topic, therefore users must display a degree of open mindedness and acceptance that other viewpoints can and do exist in order to take part in discussions.

4. Users need to display common sense and an ability to let a discussion go before it becomes circular and degenerates into name calling and point scoring.

5. Showing other users respect is essential, any disparaging personal remarks will not be tolerated.

6. Complaints about posts, or comments within posts must be made via pm, email or the complain button to the team. Any complaints about a post or another member within a thread are not acceptable.

7. The team's decision on these matters are final, they will show you respect and explain their decisions to you, please ensure you show respect to them.

8. Any user either permanently or temporarily stopped from using the environment area who is found to have attempted to re-register in order to post, will be banned from the entire forum.

By ensuring all members abide by this code, we will be able to maintain a healthy, robust debate around all the aspects of climate change and global warming, which we assume is what every member wants to see..

[Paul]

BUMP

[Paul]

Bumping this - we're starting to enforce the code of conduct for the climate change dicussion strictly as issues have been beginning to creep back into the area, please read it and take heed!

[arcticadventurer]

Bumping this - we're starting to enforce the code of conduct for the climate change dicussion strictly as issues have been beginning to creep back into the area, please read it and take heed!

Proper Order! <_<

[Paul]

Another bump as some un-needed comments are creeping into several posts at the moment, please read the code and abide by it!

[Gray-Wolf]

Another bump as some un-needed comments are creeping into several posts at the moment, please read the code and abide by it!

And Everton got panned again..........