Global Warming- Makes Mainstream

*** begin quote A 10-member House delegation did recently travel to Antarctica, Australia and New Zealand to meet with scientists studying climate change. *****

Some politicians decided that they wanted a vacation in Australia and New Zealand. If they just wanted to see melting ice, I am sure there was an ice machine and a warm room handy. Why should this worry us?

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Mankind in general is pathetically powerless to reverse the gargantuan forces of nature, so why would anyone in their right mind buy into consideration of the lowest of the low, politicians? Expect to see a major re-ordering of priorities within the next few years, as the industrialized nations face imminent catastrophic collapse of their civil infrastructure.

"They" want us to all freak out, much like the Chicken Little and Boogeyman stories they told us when we were kids, so that they can intimidate us into following their orders.

This, notwithstanding that the Global Warming has progressed to the point where the polar ice-melt has reached the point of positive feedback, i.e., every time a glacier melts, it exposes dark soil, lowering the albedo of Planet Earth, increasing the amount of energy accumulated from insolation, further warming the glaciers and ice caps, exposing more dark land to accrue energy -

I heard some guy on edjamacaitional teevee say that we've already passed the point of no return. The "global warming", the melting of the ice caps, the increase of sea level depth by 5 or 10 meters or whatever, is inevitable, no matter _what_ humans do. Even if all human activity was stopped, and we all died and didn't need to decompose, it wouldn't change the fact that the ice caps are melting regardless.

So, I say we should eat, drink, and be merry! Oh, yeah, might as well f*ck, too, since the population explosion doesn't make any difference either. ;-)

Good Luck! Rich

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It's actually not. The numbers on amount of plastic reflective film you need on orbit to act as a sunshade is not very huge. Nor is the amount of rockets that'd be needed to launch it. It's a big number - but cheaper than many wars.

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. The problem with this is that the biological balance has already been tipped towards a new equilibrium point not conducive to life support of anywhere near the present population. Among other things, this means the required insolation reduction is much greater than the estimate and itself not conducive to a habitable environment, possibly exacerbating the problem in those heavily populated areas destined to become colder.

Oh please. What's this, The End of Times, The Rapture, The Apocalypse? Or, more sectarian, The Sky Is Falling? From sea level rising a few cm? Riots in the streets from the weather changing around some, as bad as, maybe, it always did?

How do we know that global warming (oops, excuse me, "climate change") isn't a good thing overall?

I'd go on, but this is really too silly to parody. Back to installing light fixtures. CF's, of course, so as to be kind to Mother Earth.

John

Gosh, our new building (42 feet above sea level) will soon be beachfront property! I'll see babes in bikinis from my office!

John

You are going to die a painful death as a result of it- assuming the marauding bands of food scavengers do not get you first. The "babes" on the beach will be floating corpses- probably covered with buboes.

Wow, now you've got me really, really scared. I can stop worrying about bird flu and balding and AOE/3 now.

John

96.5 % of CO2 is made by nature. Let's torch the planet.

I suspect the percentage is higher than that, for the last billion years or so. The planet makes all the CO2, except for that which arrives from outer space.

I don't know about you, but I am all natural. So unless you are supernatural or unnatural, the planet made both of us.

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Oh come on now John! You know AOE-3 will have a cure for all three problems, most likely involving the clever use of LM555s.

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In article , Fred Bloggs wrote: [....]

That simply isn't true anymore. It is now well within man's ability to totally screw things up for ourselves.

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63% of all statistics are just made up on the spot to support an argument.

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Like this 63% one -)-)-)

argument.

Obviously! The *proper* statistic is 92%!

Which just goes to show, 76% of all people making that statement get the number wrong... ;o)

Tim

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"Ken Smith" a écrit dans le message de news:e07cq6$u2p$ snipped-for-privacy@blue.rahul.net...

What? JF's a guest writer in AoE3?

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Thanks,
Fred.

I'm in Whittier, at about 150' elevation, so I'll still have some walk to the beach. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who know binary, and those who don't.

CHeers! Rich