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Ken Smith

Jan 1, 1970
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A 10-member House delegation did recently travel to Antarctica, Australia
and New Zealand to meet with scientists studying climate change.
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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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Fred Bloggs

Jan 1, 1970
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Ken said:
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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?

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.
 
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Rich Grise, PLainclothes Hippie

Jan 1, 1970
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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?

"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
****, too, since the population explosion doesn't make any difference
either. ;-)

Good Luck!
Rich
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Elect Me President in 2008! I will:
A. Fire the IRS, and abolish the income tax
B. Legalize drugs
C. Stand down all military actions by the US that don't involve actual
military aggression against US territory
D. Declare World Peace I.
 
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Ian Stirling

Jan 1, 1970
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Fred Bloggs said:
Mankind in general is pathetically powerless to reverse the gargantuan
forces of nature, so why would anyone in their right mind buy into

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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Fred Bloggs

Jan 1, 1970
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Ian said:
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.

As in http://www.rense.com/general18/scatteringEdTellerwithnotes.pdf .
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.
 
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John Larkin

Jan 1, 1970
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the
industrialized nations face imminent catastrophic collapse of their
civil infrastructure.

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
 
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John Larkin

Jan 1, 1970
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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.


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

John
 
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Fred Bloggs

Jan 1, 1970
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John said:
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.

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.
 
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John Larkin

Jan 1, 1970
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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
 
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frenchy

Jan 1, 1970
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96.5 % of CO2 is made by nature. Let's torch the planet.
 
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John Popelish

Jan 1, 1970
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frenchy said:
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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Ken Smith

Jan 1, 1970
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John Larkin said:
Wow, now you've got me really, really scared. I can stop worrying
about bird flu and balding and AOE/3 now.

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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Ken Smith

Jan 1, 1970
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Fred Bloggs said:
Mankind in general is pathetically powerless to reverse the gargantuan
forces of nature,

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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Ken Smith

Jan 1, 1970
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96.5 % of CO2 is made by nature. Let's torch the planet.

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

Jan 1, 1970
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Sjouke Burry said:
Like this 63% one -)-)-)

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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Fred Bartoli

Jan 1, 1970
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Ken Smith said:
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.

What? JF's a guest writer in AoE3?
 
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Rich Grise

Jan 1, 1970
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Gosh, our new building (42 feet above sea level) will soon be beachfront
property! I'll see babes in bikinis from my office!

John

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

Cheers!
Rich
 
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Rich Grise

Jan 1, 1970
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Obviously! The *proper* statistic is 92%!

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

Tim

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

CHeers!
Rich
 
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