Global Warming

[Roy Corduroy]

Got a cold one? - Roy

[The Good Michael]

Everyone knows it's true, but did we cause it? I'm going with yes, Ripperologists caused it especially those who sold a lot of books.

Mike

[sdreid]

False but I wish it was true

[c.d.]

It would seem that the wise and prudent course is to at least take it seriously until there is more conclusive evidence one way or another. What I cannot understand is how some people can just completely dismiss the possibility as pure BS. These people almost always seem to be operating from a political point of view which seems quite foolish to me.

c.d.

[The Good Michael]

CD,

Some people want everything to remain static. They want the same food the same music, the same cars, the same books. They don't want their lives messed with. Yet, no matter how they bubble themselves, they are inexorably headed to their graves and everything is imperceptibly changing around them, because they refuse to look. They want to put fingers in their ears and say, "Nyah, nyah, nyah." No doubt humans have made huge, horrible (by nature's standards) changes to the Earth. Our carbon footprint is bigger than the clouds of methane rising over conglommerate pork farms in the west that have single-handedly polluted much of the water and have killed off species. We're screwed, and I try to do my little bit, but I'm an offender too. Thanks for bringing me down with this poll.

Mike

[c.d.]

My favorite argument, and one that you hear all the time, is that Al Gore is a hypocrite because he contributes to global warming with plane rides etc. Therefore, global warming is not true. But turn this argument around -- if Al Gore lived in a mud hut and contributed not one iota towards global warming does global warming now become a fact. It is obviously a completely ludicrous argument but you do hear it a lot. So much for critical thinking.

c.d.

[The Good Michael]

It's difficult to spread a message from a mud hut unless everyone goes to visit, and then they are using the fossil fuel.

Mike

[c.d.]

It's difficult to spread a message from a mud hut unless everyone goes to visit, and then they are using the fossil fuel.

Mike

Ah quit using logic to make your argument, Michael. Just listen to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity et al. They'll get you squared away and thinking right on this issue.

c.d.

[Tom_Wescott]

I am by no means a bleeding heart liberal, but it's quite obvious to me that global warming is a reality.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[c.d.]

I am by no means a bleeding heart liberal, but it's quite obvious to me that global warming is a reality.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

Have no fears, Tom. No one on these boards will ever call you a bleeding heart liberal.

c.d.

[mariab]

Have no fears, Tom. No one on these boards will ever call you a bleeding heart liberal.

You cracked me up, C.D.! By the by, I think Tom once considered voting for Al Gore.

There's a possibility I travel to Iceland in late May (although I'm starting to suspect that the conference I was invited in, Music and Nature, might end up not taking place due to Iceland's catastrophic recession), and I've already secured a sponsor for snowboarding, but we can't organize the trip but at the last minute, due to uncertainty about the presence of snow. In Iceland! The winter in North Germany took up exactly 1 month this year. Last summer in Germany it kept pouring thick rain for 6 weeks non stop, resulting in major agricultural damage (and in the ground reeking like a corpse for weeks on end).
By the by, did any of you hear the one about the moon having reached its closest point to the Earth since March 1993 (and appearing 30% brighter and 14% larger than at its furthest point) supposedly having “influenced“ the recent earthquake in Japan? Apparently there have been statistics linking the moon's trajectory to earthquakes too, besides the tides.

[Tom_Wescott]

Al Gore didn't become a good leader until he was out of office. Now I think I'd vote for him, but he's too smart to run.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[mariab]

Al Gore didn't become a good leader until he was out of office. Now I think I'd vote for him, but he's too smart to run.

This is weird. This quote could have come off my mouth.
(Although poor Obama's not doing too bad, considering, and I had profound reservations pertaining to him being too “green“ in 2008. “Green“ referring not to environmentalism in this case.)

[c.d.]

Not to mention the lip lock that Al put on then wife Tipper at the Convention. Hoo Hah!

c.d.

[mariab]

“Then wife“? Haven't been following up. Anyway, who cares? Al Gore would have been a good president, obviously a much better president than Bill Clinton, and I'm referring to enviromental policies and to a non isolationist foreign policy, as in the decimation of redwoods of California and their resulting in mortal mud slides, the excavating for gas in Alaska, not signing the Kyoto protocol, maybe not bombing a pharmaceutical company in Sudan. (I'm NOT referring to the silly “scandals“.)