Battlefield Earth

Foreign Policy ^ | January 2008 | Jamais Cascio

[CodeToad]

“Could you get back to me when the Temperature raises to about 80 degress.
Its 20 degrees snowing and my plow just quit on me.
“

Ditto! Here in Colorado we’ve had an extrmely cold two winters in a row. We’ve been having single digit temps night after night and that is unusal for this place.

I wonder what ever happened to the Luddites of the 60’s and 70’s who told us we would all be starving by now because the planet was running out of food.

Oh, and those Luddites who said we need to ban CFCs because of the Ozone hole. Funny thing, it’s still there even after banning CFCs, yet, we hear nothing from the Luddites about this. They got their way to ban another man-made substance and then shut up.

[Domandred]

Reminds me more of Robotech then Battlefield Earth:

Grand Cannon - The Grand Cannon was a much more powerful Reflex weapon which built up the charge in a giant underground shaft secretly built in Alaska. The beam, whose energy is derived from the Earth's gravity, could be adjusted during firing and was great enough to destroy countless numbers of Zentraedi warships orbiting the Earth. Unfortunately, the Grand Cannon was damaged shortly after obliterating a huge group of ships of the Zentraedi's Imperial Fleet.

[Snickering Hound]

[Hoplite]

Think globally, act locally.

[steelyourfaith]

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Doc91678]

As with everything in Life you must take all things with a grain of salt.
I personally worked on the CFC ban in the 90’s. There are many things that cause Ozone and also deplete Ozone.
One of them is Chlorine as well as Fluorine based chemicals. In fact all Halogen compounds deplete Ozone to some degree.
Now to get back to the Global Warming thing.
Surely man is responsible for some of the GW. But for the most part it is due to changes in the Sun’s radiation on earth.
Personally I live in the North East. We get approximately a total of 6 feet of snow per year. And it does get down in temperature. This year we had a spell of below zero days that really ran up the heating bills.
So I don’t really believe in Gore’s theories.
The earth has gone through many phases of heat and cold. Man and beast have survived. Other than a cataclysmic event, I don’t believe you or I will ever see the events Gore and his cronies have predicted.