Posted on 02/02/2007 9:50:11 AM PST by ml/nj
Kids go outside? Funny I don't see many.
Maybe they're getting asthma from plopping their butts down in front of the playstation and never going outside? Meanwhile we've made our houses so airtight that there is no air exchange. So your breathing dust mites, dead skin cells ground up dog feces that you stepped in on the way to the bus that is now ground in your carpet.
Yeah! Right on Dude! Conservatives LOVE dirty air and smile gleefully as they burn jugs of PCBs in their back yard.
Get real? Would ya? When I was a kid I was outside all of the time barefoot in the grass. I would come inside at night and it would look like I had black socks on from the particulates on the grass. USA has taken the lead in cleaning up their pollution. It's time for the rest of the world to do the same and don't look to us to pay for it.
Lets build hundreds and hundreds of nuclear plants. End the coal use and save it for gasification.
They aren't. Just a few select ones are that hang out in the elite liberal UN club.
Thousands more disagree with global warming, but their voices are silenced. You hacve to look for them yourself. Start here, and you will find hundreds. Studies
Warmer than normal in California? What about the orange crop freeze?
That's Global warming, LoL! No matter how cold it gets, remember, that's global warming. it's minus 28c here right now, -44c with wind chill. -global warming. My trucks been running for a half hour now, warming up. Must have burned a half a tank of gas, and I haven't even gone anywhere! Better get going. my tires will be square for the first half a mile though. later.
I see no downside in reducing or even ending our dependence on fossil fuels. This should have been done years ago.
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The activities of the Union of Concerned Scientists deserve special mention. That widely supported organization was originally devoted to nuclear disarmament. As the cold war began to end, the group began to actively oppose nuclear power generation.
Their position was unpopular with many physicists. Over the past few years, the organization has turned to the battle against global warming in a particularly hysterical manner.
In 1989 the group began to circulate a petition urging recognition of global warming as potentially the great danger to mankind. Most recipients who did not sign were solicited at least twice more.
The petition was eventually signed by 700 scientists including a great many members of the National Academy of Sciences and Nobel laureates. Only about three or four of the signers, however, had any involvement in climatology.
Interestingly, the petition had two pages, and on the second page there was a call for renewed consideration of nuclear power.
When the petition was published in the New York Times, however, the second page was omitted. In any event, that document helped solidify the public perception that "all scientists'' agreed with the disaster scenario. Such a disturbing abuse of scientific authority was not unnoticed.
-16F in Denver, supposedly tied a record low.
Above quote was from http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv15n2/reg15n2g.html
This doesn't look like a winter photo. Someone needs to find out when and where this picture was taken.
Having endured four winters in Fairbanks AK I can tell you that for a shot taken above the Arctic Circle, where polar bears are found, the sun appears to be very, very high in the sky...unless that picture wasn't taken in winter.
Why those no good low down scum-sucking .........................
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One type of song that has come into increasing prominence in recent months is the folk-song of protest. You have to admire people who sing these songs. It takes a certain amount of courage to get up in a coffee-house or a college auditorium and come out in favor of the things that everybody else in the audience is against like peace and justice and brotherhood and so on.Do you actually think I'm for pollution? That my comments lead you to consider that absurdity should make you consider that maybe I'm trying to say something else that you haven't considered - and which may make sense.
I'm saying that what's happening is not necessarily and automatically as evil as many presume - that perhaps things don't work the way you are presuming based on a cursory glance.
Certainly dumping garbage in the air is generally not good. Duh.
Like other things that have unintended consequences, it has been observed that due to air pollution, the amount of sunlight hitting the Earth's surface has decreased, with more being reflected than ususal. Oddly, this may actually have the side effect of cooling, and thus counteracting the natural global warming process (which, as has been often observed, is natural and periodic, occuring whether or not Man exists or not).
Perhaps you might consider for a moment that Man's contribution to global warming is actually to reduce it.
Additionally, all that extra CO2 Gore et al have been freaking over is plant food. Between that and less ice, we should see an increase in plant, and by extention animal, life. Longer growing seasons, greenhouse conditions (notice that life thrives in a greenhouse), prolific growth - that's good, right?
Upshot: there are ways of looking at these issues which reveal results beyond the politically correct "it's all bad" mantras.
Of course, you'll read the above and just conclude I'm evil and/or stupid.
***The more I look at this photo the more I'm convinced that it couldn't even have been taken in this calendar year. The light is too bright, and the shadows too vertical...the sun is way too high in the sky for this photo to even be a winter shot.
I'm calling FRAUD!****
Only those touting the global warming lines get money and microphones. Those who don't are shunned.
Bingo.
Quite.
Those wound up about the subject tend to spend part of their day in jams on multi-lane freeways thru concrete jungles. Those of us in the other 95% of the country don't see a problem with clean air, plentiful water, and an abundance of nature.
The sun appeared, theoretically, in Barrow about 22 Jan, as usual. Until then and for the past two months the sun did not rise at all.
Did the bears climb on top of the ice? Looks like a hard climb for a bear. Did the bears stand there till the ice melted around them? I don't think so. Those pictures look photo shopped to me. Fake photos.
I'm all for Nuclear energy!
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