What happened to Global Warming?
When I put my first above ground pool in around the late 90's we were able to open it in April and start swimming in May.
Now my pool is just opened and still not warm enough to swim in
I'd like some global warming back...
Me thinks AIDS being introduced in 3rd world countries was an intended culling of the human race... yeah, wipe out the least productive yet most prolific breeders on the planet.
What the 1st world architects of this scheme didn't count on was the disease bridging the gap between the 3rd and 1st worlds... so it came back to bite them in the ass and billions has been spent searching for a cure to the promiscuous wealthy can feel a bit safer raping the poor.
So what has this to do with global warming? Everything!!!! The heat has been turned up on us all since the wealthy and most powerful elements of mankind decided to play God and interfere with the natural process of things.
And yes, I do love a juicy conspiracy theory... and I swapped my tin foil hat for a stainless steel saucepan so I know I'm safe.
I think it's the other way around. When the world gets warmer, tropical diseases will spread to the north. And since the north people have not built resistance to such diseases, they'll be in big trouble.
For example when there are humid rain forests growing in the Netherlands, with large populations of big apes, and we run into them while building a highway through the forest, then we are also at risk of catching the ebola virus. And if that virus is carried to a large city like Amsterdam, it'll cause chaos and lots of economic damage.
Really, we're better off preventing such a thing from happening in the first place ^^
My favorite post about this:
Geoman, you need to know that when I start talking conspiracy theories I'm doing so with tongue-in-cheek. I have no idea where the AIDS virus originated or how, okay. I was just fooling around and tying shit together that don't belong together... I mean, like AIDS and global warming?
I have a thing about bankers, politicians and corporate entities... the wealthy, where I tie them into all sorts of conspiracy theories and blame them for the ills of the world, but it is all tongue-in-cheek and done with a bit of mindful mischief. Okay?
So, when you see a post of mine concluded with or frequently using this smilie , please remember, I'm just fooling around.
Seriously, anyone and everyone who contracts AIDS is in big trouble... from the North AND South. It is unforgiving and non-selective, regardless of race, colour or creed... the climate.
I know. I wasn't entirely serious either. Just a little bit. It would be very ironic if Europeans were wiped out because of some virus, similar to how a deadly European cocktail of smallpox, measles, typhus, influenza, dyphteria killed so many American Indians in the past.
It's not the wealthy I fear, but those poor people posers (PPPs) in Ethiopia....
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Ethiopia
Lots of talk and little action.
http://www.livescience.com/42934-obama-declares-climate-change-fact-sotu.html
My suggestion to presidents and premiers around the world is: stop talking about how big a problem it is and do something about it.
And don't add even more red tape!!!
Why? You certainly can't....
Politicians talk about carbon tax this, subsidize that ... it takes too long and is too inefficient. They should just ban coal-fired power plants altogether.
It's so simple, but they make it so complicated... too much talk, way too much.
Honestly ... how many decades can people discuss something like this ... as if we have a choice in this matter.
Even if someone doesn't believe in GW, then it should be pretty obvious to that person that one day all coal is burnt up, those supplies don't last forever. In the good old days, if a country wanted raw resources, they simply waged war and got what they wanted from abroad. However when all coal on our planet is used up, we cannot wage a war with a neighbouring planet to get their coal, because there's no such planet.
Our current economy is not sustainable... so why do people take this risk, why don't they just leave stuff in the ground and focus on other types of energy? It's not like we're living in the middle ages ... we have the technology to make the changes, so wtf isn't there world-wide action ????
Imho it's just pathetic. We got brains, but we are making the worst kind of decisions again and again.
Dictatorial rule is fun for everyone!
No, it's not! That's why mankind will migrate back to the caves and hunt wild animals for food when the coal/gas/uranium runs out... and it surely will.
However, mankind has a greater problem than running out of fuel. Absolutely!!!
You see, for all the stuff mankind has sent into space [and that's not just spacecraft and stations] the planet has become lighter. Now what this means is that mankind has altered the balance of the planet, and when all the underground mines cave in... causing mass subidence across the globe, thus giving it an odd,uneven shape... Earth will veer from its orbit and career off into the sun, thus burning everything including the planet.
No, I'm NOT kidding, GeomanNL. It's not if, but when!
I've never been to a desert, but I suddenly feel how a someone would feel, all alone and lost in the desert. He (or she) can cry, and shout all he (or she) wants, but there's nobody there to listen to his (or her) despair .
Fortunately everyday life is normal, so I can shut down the computer, forget about the future horrors and all the other horrible things happening on the other side of the world, and I can pretend nothing is happening. Happy happy joy joy. Happy happy... joy joy...
Kinda liked this from one of today's Mark Steyn posts:
To summarize, when it comes to climate change, the left is right on the science and wrong on the politics, and the right is wrong on the science and right on the politics.
As evidence of both propositions, he cites me, and no lefties at all. But I'd forgotten the passage he quotes from me on the politics of "climate change", and, if I do say so myself, I think it bears repeating:
Governments that are incapable of—to pluck at random—enforcing their southern border, reducing waiting times for routine operations to below two years, or doing something about the nightly ritual of car-torching "youths," are nevertheless taken seriously when they claim to be able to change the very heavens—if only they can tax and regulate us enough.
That's the point. The President of the United States assured us last night that there's no argument, "climate change" is happening, "the science is settled", and he needs a free hand to act now. But he's the guy who gave us Obamacare, and there's no reason to believe that letting his genius loose on the planet's climate would be anything but an even bigger fiasco. The Prussian again:
One can take the Solyndra fiasco in the United States, the failures of things like wind power, and so forth. There is a distinct impression, by no means unsupported, that government initiatives in this will lead to nothing whatsoever except cronyism and failure. Indeed, as Bjorn Lomborg has repeatedly shown, carbon cuts right now will do effectively nada when it comes to tackling this problem.
But, whatever they do for the polar ice caps, they massively expand government, and advance the power and prestige of the likes of Michael Mann. And, if it turns out they're wrong, do you seriously think they'd surrender all that? So I would say it's more important to be right on the politics than on the science, which will take care of itself, and would be healthier if restored to a normal branch of objective inquiry from its present politically sexed-up fever swamp.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140123102429.htm
This shows research about forests and a "carbon-starvation-brake". It's pretty interesting: less CO2 means plants are less efficient at breaking up rocks, and fewer exposed rocks means there's less absorption of CO2 from the atmosphere.
I would be more concerned about the imminent threat of the Earth's magnetic fields flipping.
Our magnetic field has dropped 5% over the past century, and with less of a field to divert solar winds, more solar radiation will get through. Oh wait, that would make it global warming again.... silly me, its all about the CO2, not other, obvious sources of problems.
A magnetic field cannot stop radiation, but it can divert charged particles. But the density of those particles is so low, they contains very little energy.
And with mankind incessantly pulling trainloads of minerals out of the ground every minute, it'll only get weaker and weaker until the planet flips its lid and careers off into space towards the sun at a rate of knots.
I've heard people say it can never happen, but I say never say never. The damage done to this planet by mining, logging and over-farming is irreversible... and when the land degradation has become too much and erosion has removed most of the top soil; and the mines cave in to leave gaping holes right across the globes; and there isn't enough oxygenating plantlife to replenish the atmosphere, life as we know it will cease to exist.
Oh, and it ain't that far off, believe me. We're already seeing sinkholes developing around the world, many the result of mining, and land degradation so severe it will not sustain farming for a couple of hundred years or more... and we all know how the Amazon, the greatest oxygen producer on the planet is rapidly being cut down
It mightn't happen in our life times, but our great, great grandchildren are likely to witness this beginning of the end.
The earth's magnetic field is generated by the core, not the upper few miles of the crust. It changes over time due to movement of the dipoles in the core itself.
I knew that!
Thing is, mankind is going deeper and deeper to extract oil and minerals, some from some crazy depths, and that is the point I'm trying to make. We have done irreparable damage to the planet, and in man's never ending quest for greater wealth and power, it will suffer even greater degradation in the years soon after we are gone. So all this jumping up and down about 'global warming is just that.... jumping up and down. Fact is, those with the greatest power and wealth will continue to rape the planet at a rate of knots, irrespective of global warming protagonists.
In the end, when the damage is beyond current imagination, who is to say the core doesn't tilt to such an extent that the planet veers from its orbit and is drawn by the sun's magnetic pull? Then there'll be man made global warming.
And the thing with science fiction, the Earthbound variety, that is... it nearly always becomes science fact. Every generation since the dawn of man has believed certain things weren't possible, then a latter generation set out to prove them wrong.
You don't have to worry about that. We've only scratched the surface of the earth, the rest remains unaffected.
There's also no way for humans to push the Earth out of its orbit, that can only be done by a very large external force applied over a very long time (otherwise the Earth would break in pieces). The only force we know of that can do that is God, and he loves you, so you don't have to worry about that
Imo, reality is stranger than fiction. How can one writer ever imagine the stupid things that are produced by the collective idiocy of billions of people.
Not so sure about that! Some mining ventures have gone several miles deep and are still going... so when mankind develops technology to drill/bore even further, he is certainly going to take it to the limit and endanger the balance of things Oh and don't be so sure that mankind cannot affect the Earth's orbit, etc. It won't happen in your lifetime, or you childrens lifetimes, but mankind is determined to exploit the planet for all it's worth, and the technology to achieve that goal will be developed.
Sadly, neither you or I will be around to see that I'm right, but never mind, can't be upset by something you can't see or know about.
Now that is something we do agree on... and who knew there were so many idiots on the planet.
Dunno what it means...but tomorrow was going to be 41.... now it'll be a balmy 39....
Ah....maybe global cooling....
Still effing hot enough....Sunday night might get down as low as 27 ....
Hasn't been that bad up Brassall way just recently... had a couple of warmer than usual days last week, but it hasn't been at all bad since the heat wave of a few weeks ago, when one day it was 47c outside and 51c [the air-con went guts up] in our kitchen/dining area. It cops the full afternoon sun and can be horrendous if we have to cook when the air-con isn't on. Even when it is it doesn't quite get into the kitchen, so we still wait until mid-evening to cook/eat during summer. So glad the air-con's fixed now, though.
I suffer badly with the heat, anything from 30c up is an ordeal, sweat-wise, so bugger the power bill! The air-con is going to be set to 24c in the loungeroom each day and that's that...'tis a good unit, too... 'cept for the kitchen, it cools or heats the remainder of upstairs so it's comfortable.
As for 27... me likes it best around 19c - 20c... or less. Roll on Winter... and Rugby League season.... aaaaayyyy!
So why did the Mammoths disappear after the last ice age? This article says it's because the eco-system which the Mammoths preferred never recovered after the ice age. Instead of the nutrient plants they relied on, there were only woody and less nutrient plants left and the population of Mammoths couldn't recover.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140205133252.htm
This is also interesting, and blames forests for a large part of (ancient) warming: a world covered in forests, they say, leads to massive amounts of methane and ozone (from wild fires) in the atmosphere, leading to several degrees of warming (without the need of CO2). They also warn that a warmer climate which supports more vegetation, will lead to an increase of this natural methane and ozone production.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140205113425.htm
'Interesting' is relative.
It's 'interesting' that I scored post number 2000.
Sadly nothing has been resolved in all that time.
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