Posted on 04/21/2009 11:06:13 PM PDT by neverdem
I’m more concerned about cooling at the moment. And I agree - leave it to the capitalists to be able to quickly react to these changes. Whichever way they go.
Only if we avoid another mass extermination of humanity by the communists/marxists/socialists.
As the saying goes, it’s an ill wind that blows no good. Moderate global warming would dry up some land areas and thaw out others, so suitable farm locations would change.
I'm going to use charcoal briquets in my backyard barbecue pit tomorrow evening: smudging up the atmosphere might help in the fight against global cooling...
******************* I got a National Geographic last summer(?). One article talked about how the northern U.S. moose population is going down, too warm, etc. What a terrible thing.
In the SAME issue there was a story about some pretty song bird, that for the FIRST TIME EVER had been seen north of the Rio Grande in the U.S. Bird watchers were jubilant, newspapers sent reporters, it was WONDERFUL!
(They are all a bunch of idiots!)
As we speak, pilot projects are underway to digest cellulose (i.e. vegetative waste) into fuels using genetically engineered microorganisms. If this scales successfully, we will have achieved a virtually closed loop solution to the energy needs of the foreseeable future. It will add no more CO2 to the atmosphere than the vegetation was able to take out of the atmosphere when it grew. Agriculture countries will be the big energy producers and we can ostracize former oil countries.
Ah yes the sins against Mother Nature, as recounted by those in the Church of Environmentalism. But we have the opportunity to buy indulgences in the form of carbon credits, so there is some hope for our souls. /s
Actually, there WAS some global warming in the 1990's. It was NOT, however, the result of any human activity, just as the likely coming cooling period will not be, either.
That big old yellow-face that rise every morning will determine what our climate will be. In the 90's there were an abundance of sunspots, and we were warmer. Those sunspots have diminished since the end of the 90's, and the planet has been cooling steadily. At this point, there hasn't been a single sunspot in almost two months. If we end up having a sunspot minimum, similar to the Dalton Minimum in the late 1700s through the early 1800s, continues we could very well be headed for another Little Ice Age like the world experienced then.
SirKit and I have proposed that if we do have a minimum, it should be named for Algore, and another freeper suggested Hansen, so we think it should be called the Hansen-Gore minimum, to cement for posterity the utter idiocy of those two men.
Global Cooling Earth's Little-Known Threat
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We should have nuke plants, so at least there will be reliable sources of power for heating. Too bad the greenies are such weenies about nuclear power, since it doesn't create the CO2 that burning fossil fuels does.
If we get Global Cooling, then it’s back to the old fossil fuels for a while. We got lots of coal and so does China.
I’m going to celebrate earth day by driving my 4 wheel drive pickup with the huge engine that burns tons of gas, all day.
Algae-oil also feeds off raw sewage from humans and animals. There is no special treatment. All you need is a pipe to the algae growing facility. The food we eat gets a second use after it is flushed down a toilet. Once that sewage becomes algae-oil you can use it to farm more food.
Algae-oil is very efficient. It requires less space and less energy than setting up a crop field, and then use the crops to feed a fermenter. With proper techniques, it is possible to grow 20,000 gallons of algae-oil per year per acre.
Algae-oil has more energy per unit than ethanol.
Algae-oil does not have the problems when transported through pipeline that ethanol does. Ethanol has the property of absorbing water. The water in ethanol can corrode the steel in pipelines. If the ethanol absorbs too much water in the pipeline system, it becomes unusable as a fuel.
Coming soon, to a theatre near you!
Rated R due to violence and that cannibalism thingie...
I'll take my old “very” smokey Dodge Cummins diesel to work today instead of the Jetta.
Every time I “step on it” a nice plume of black smoke comes out. Just to irritate the Volvo crowd.
A few thousand acres of corn and a few other crops are being grown around the facility to provide the cellulose needed in the process for the bio-diesel / bio-fuels production.
Though basically a research center, Novozymes, is geared towards creating specific enzymes to work with specific algae to make the conversions needed on a marketable scale for biodiesel production. The plant employs approximately 350 people and is the largest multi-purpose enzyme manufacturing plant in the United States.
Well..., whatever it is — global warming or global cooling — they are both correct.
What is *not correct* is “Anthropogenic Global Warming” and the following documentary will help anyone understand that one. You should have it with you at all times for anyone who asks... :-)
Its one thing to gripe and complain about these things and disagree with it, but its quite *another* to convince your friends and neighbors and relatives and coworkers...
THEREFORE..., its also absolutely necessary for people to know the information in the following documentary. If there were simply *one* video that you could see and/or show people you know... this would be the *one*...
The following is an *excellent* video documentary on the so-called Global Warming I would recommend it to all FReepers. Its a very well-made documentary.
The Great Global Warming Swindle
If you want to download it, via a BitTorrent site (using a BitTorrent client), you can get it at the following link.
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3635222/The_Great_Global_Warming_Swindle
[this is a high-quality copy, of about a gigabyte in size...]
Its worth seeing and having for relatives, friends, neighbors and coworkers to see.
Also, see it online here...
http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/great_global_warming_swindle.php
[this one is considerably lower quality, is a flash video and viewable online, of course...]
Buy it here...
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000WLUXZE
[this one would be the very highest quality version, on a DVD disk, of several gigabytes in size...]
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