My joke wasn't in bad taste.
It was pure comedy!
Prebe is just being a party pooper.
(yeah, translate that one you commie bastard
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My joke wasn't in bad taste.
It was pure comedy!
Prebe is just being a party pooper.
(yeah, translate that one you commie bastard
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Okay folks, what tempreture is the Earth supposed to be at? I posted this once... 20,000 years or so ago, the average was nearly 20 degree's less than it is now. A few million years ago, it was 10 degree's warmer.
Reckon it's a good thing those Neanderthals couldn't do anything about that global warming thing, or there wouldn't be a Detroit or Chicago now.
Reckon it's a good thing those Neanderthals couldn't do anything about that global warming thing, or there wouldn't be a Detroit or Chicago now.
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Well, we could actually do without Detroit and Chicago.
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I supposed that's better than a pooper popper!Prebe wrote:Oh! It's pooper. I always thought it was popperHLT wrote:Prebe is just being a party pooper.
(not that there's anything wrong with that)
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Well they think it might have been. Those arent facts they are theory. The farther back you go in trying to extrapolate temperature the less precise the measurement.Rawedge Rim wrote:Okay folks, what tempreture is the Earth supposed to be at? I posted this once... 20,000 years or so ago, the average was nearly 20 degree's less than it is now. A few million years ago, it was 10 degree's warmer.
However at the very least people are starting to realize that we are in a warming period. Whether its because of CO2 or some other natural cycle is what is debatable and has been debated at length. I think we have had some affect on global temperatures. I think that man is tipping the scales on the balance of nature. I could be wrong. But think on this.
Its not gonna hurt my feelings if Im wrong about Global warming. Nothing will change except perhaps we will find cleaner air and water as a by-product of our changes.
But what if it is man made and we do nothing? What if we wait too long? What if it was changable but instead we were worried about 'economics'?
In that scenario, everyone gets hurt.
But if its man-made and we can change it.. isnt that worth the effort?
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about global warming.
Ice caps melting...species going extinct. global tilt....ICE AGE...anyone know how long its been since we had one? ive heard they come about every 50,000 years or so. these things have been fluxuating since the beginning of life on this planet, species either adapt or become extinct, now all we can do is hopelessly try to save as many species as possible.... when i look at he attitude of people and how little they really care it makes me think our species is doomed...we dont have the ability to function as a whole or like mind, our differences will be the end of us. Industry only cares about today, not what happens 40 years from now..after all-they will be dead then and F**K all to everyone else
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to slow global warming you have to shut down factorys, and smoke stacks and petrol using autos, How do you tell the rest of the world who rely on the product causing..or helping global warming on its way to stop using that product and think of another way to make a living? people wont sacrifice themselves for the sake of our planets future..and they surely wont stop having babies to help the population problem, we worry about global warming when more likely we are going to suffer some major epidemic to thin the herds-forgive my bluntness. Humans can survive just about any climate change,..most other animals in the Wild cannot..thats why so many species go extinct..due to climactic changes or changes in the its food source, its been that way for a couple billion years and its going to be that way for a few billion more.
Humans would be really Screwed if all machinery...electronics anything relying on magnetism stopped working suddenly...no trucks delivering food to the grocery stores, No major crops because those rely on machinery to feed water and harvest, the only ones that would survive would be those near or on a farm, ....that would just about wipe out half our population due to starvation alone...I wont even get into the water pumps quitting.
Ice caps melting...species going extinct. global tilt....ICE AGE...anyone know how long its been since we had one? ive heard they come about every 50,000 years or so. these things have been fluxuating since the beginning of life on this planet, species either adapt or become extinct, now all we can do is hopelessly try to save as many species as possible.... when i look at he attitude of people and how little they really care it makes me think our species is doomed...we dont have the ability to function as a whole or like mind, our differences will be the end of us. Industry only cares about today, not what happens 40 years from now..after all-they will be dead then and F**K all to everyone else
with a smileto slow global warming you have to shut down factorys, and smoke stacks and petrol using autos, How do you tell the rest of the world who rely on the product causing..or helping global warming on its way to stop using that product and think of another way to make a living? people wont sacrifice themselves for the sake of our planets future..and they surely wont stop having babies to help the population problem, we worry about global warming when more likely we are going to suffer some major epidemic to thin the herds-forgive my bluntness. Humans can survive just about any climate change,..most other animals in the Wild cannot..thats why so many species go extinct..due to climactic changes or changes in the its food source, its been that way for a couple billion years and its going to be that way for a few billion more.
Humans would be really Screwed if all machinery...electronics anything relying on magnetism stopped working suddenly...no trucks delivering food to the grocery stores, No major crops because those rely on machinery to feed water and harvest, the only ones that would survive would be those near or on a farm, ....that would just about wipe out half our population due to starvation alone...I wont even get into the water pumps quitting.
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Honestly, I don't even think we CAN cause the same amount of damage that must have happened in the Permian die-off (something like 98%of all species were destroyed) or even the Mesozoic extinction. Maybe launching Armageddon, but global warming? The hydrocarbons came *from the atmosphere*. We have much bigger fish to fry when it comes to unnatural tampering with the world's ecosystem. Honestly, stopping the destruction of the Amazon is a bigger priority to me that lowering carbon emissions. (Remember the Rainforests?)
The faddish nature of Global Warming is a big part of what makes me roll my eyes when I hear people talk about it. Not only am I unconvinced as to whether or not it will have any real detrimental impact on the environment, there are SO MANY things we are doing that are having REAL and TERRIBLE effects. But nope! we can't use nuclear power, we have to lower emissions, and we better not litter! (Don't get me wrong, I hate having trash all over the place as much as anyone, but that's mostly aesthetics) It just seems like a smoke and mirror show to distract us from real problems.
The faddish nature of Global Warming is a big part of what makes me roll my eyes when I hear people talk about it. Not only am I unconvinced as to whether or not it will have any real detrimental impact on the environment, there are SO MANY things we are doing that are having REAL and TERRIBLE effects. But nope! we can't use nuclear power, we have to lower emissions, and we better not litter! (Don't get me wrong, I hate having trash all over the place as much as anyone, but that's mostly aesthetics) It just seems like a smoke and mirror show to distract us from real problems.
Global warming has become the neverending war against Oceana. We've always been at war with Oceana (except for 30 years ago when we were worried about global cooling).
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And there's me thinking that was the 'war on terror'......
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*shrug* That's why I don't call it Global Warming. That's only one tiny part of a whole mixed bag of the effect we're having on the environment. Environmental systems are delicate. The actual effects look small, but environmental systems have a built-in snowball effect.The Dreaming wrote:Not only am I unconvinced as to whether or not it will have any real detrimental impact on the environment, there are SO MANY things we are doing that are having REAL and TERRIBLE effects. But nope! we can't use nuclear power, we have to lower emissions, and we better not litter! (Don't get me wrong, I hate having trash all over the place as much as anyone, but that's mostly aesthetics) It just seems like a smoke and mirror show to distract us from real problems.
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....And the "war on poverty". And "the war on drugs".finn wrote:And there's me thinking that was the 'war on terror'......
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Cail wrote:Well, we could actually do without Detroit and Chicago.
Now, if a Liberal had said that, I know several thin-skinned Cons who would've dedicated a page or so to decrying the Liberal Hatred Of The Mid West.
(There may have been actual hand-wringing! And, I imagine, some of that little What Do I Do dance that Homer does...)
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Ever been? Detroit's a Hell hole. Chicago's got some absolutely beautiful architecture, but it's also the capital of corrupt Democratic politics.
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Lived in Chicago for several years. I still have the pizza FedExed occasionally. Wish I could do the same with the Live Blues.
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It is a nice place to visit. No way I'd ever want to live there tough.
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Not even sure of that, my Dad lives there and I visit semi-regularly. Freezing in Winter, hot and humid in summer and apart from the music, not a great deal to offer compared to other cities.
"Winston, if you were my husband I'd give you poison" ................ "Madam, if you were my wife I would drink it!"
"Terrorism is war by the poor, and war is terrorism by the rich"
"A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well."
"The opposite of pro-life isn't pro-death. Y'know?"
"What if the Hokey Cokey really is what its all about?"
"Terrorism is war by the poor, and war is terrorism by the rich"
"A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well."
"The opposite of pro-life isn't pro-death. Y'know?"
"What if the Hokey Cokey really is what its all about?"
Except the music, the museums, the waterfront...
(NOTE: The Liberal continues to defend the midwest from the conservatives.)
(NOTE: The Liberal continues to defend the midwest from the conservatives.)
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