Global Warming

2minkey

2minkey

bootlicker
yep. the eternal liberal scapegoat did it.

pheeeeeuw.

golly gonz, lots of people understand that global warming is real, and are in favor of expanded nuke power.
 
chcr

chcr

Too cute for words
Gonz said:
Whatever happened to our atomic energy policy? Oh, that's right, the same crowd that is today claiming humans cause global warming destroyed it.
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No, no, that was the eighties version of "we're all gonna die." It's a brave new century and the climate doing what it's been doing for millions of years is gonna kill us now. I can't help but notice that we're still all gonna die though. We will, just not all at once from our dependence on fossil fuels.
 
Gonz

Gonz

molṑn labé
Staff member
Hell, I believe in cyclical global warming. I find the peons who think mankind has the ability to change our planets cycles to be a funny lot though.

Tree rings told us that 12975 years ago it was 57.4F at 11:23AM. Bullshit! Our scientists can't even get tomorrows forecast right.
 
Cerise

Cerise

Well-Known Member
chcr said:
Sure they were, didn't you see "Jurassic Park?" :D
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You can't fool Mother Nature....

Michael Crichton said:
You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity! Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There's been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years. Bacteria first; later the first multicellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea, on the land. Then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years, great dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away -- all this against a background of continuous and violent upheaval. Mountain ranges thrust up, eroded away, cometary impacts, volcano eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving, an endless, constant, violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of years. Earth has survived everything in its time.It will certainly survive us. If all the nuclear weapons in the world went off at once and all the plants, all the animals died and the earth was sizzling hot for a hundred thousand years, life would survive, somewhere: under the soil, frozen in arctic ice. Sooner or later, when the planet was no longer inhospitable, life would spread again. The evolutionary process would begin again. Might take a few billion years for life to regain its present variety. Of course, it would be very different from what it is now, but the earth would survive our folly, only we would not. If the ozone layer gets thinner, ultraviolet radiation sears earth, so what? Ultraviolet radiation is good for life. It's powerful energy. It promotes mutation, change. Many forms of life will thrive with more UV radiation. Many others will die out. You think this is the first time that's happened? Think about oxygen. Necessary for life now, but oxygen is actually a metabolic poison, a corrosive glass, like fluorine.

When oxygen was first produced as a waste product by certain plant cells some three billion years ago, it created a crisis for all other life on earth. Those plants were polluting the environment, exhaling a lethal gas. Earth eventually had an atmosphere incompatible with life. Nevertheless, life on earth took care of itself. In the thinking of the human being a hundred years is a long time. Hundred years ago we didn't have cars, airplanes, computers or vaccines. It was a whole different world, but to the earth, a hundred years is nothing. A million years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can't imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven't got the humility to try. We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.
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MrBishop

MrBishop

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SouthernN'Proud said:
[Sam Kinison]...and it occurred to us on the way out here that there wouldn't be world hunger IF YOU PEOPLE WOULD LIVEWHERE THE FOOD IS!!!![/Sam]
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The problem is that where the food is now, isn't where the food will be in 50 years. Deforestation does more towards destroying local top-soil than bad irrigations does..or planting too many crops in quick succession etc...

That big-ol desert in the middle east...used to be called the Fertile Crescent.
Chunks of Arizona used to be completely forested and home to hundreds of thousands of folx living off the land.

Fertile areas change...mostly through human intervention.

Oh..and as a final point. The people who would have to move to 'where the food is' aren't usually welcome where the food is. (Europe and the Americas)...and even if they were welcome, they'd overtax the food/crop lands..and start a whole new cycle, eh
 
SouthernN'Proud

SouthernN'Proud

Southern Discomfort
MrBishop said:
The problem is that where the food is now, isn't where the food will be in 50 years.
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It's called comedy...



There's food where I live now, was fifty years ago, a hundred years ago, and as far back as anyone can trace. Even Al Gore says so. Then, I don't live in a desert.
 
Gonz

Gonz

molṑn labé
Staff member
MrBishop said:
The problem is that where the food is now, isn't where the food will be in 50 years. Deforestation does more towards destroying local top-soil than bad irrigations does..or planting too many crops in quick succession etc...
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Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahome, Texas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia...all very heavily farmed areas for over 50 year s& all still quite fertile.

MrBishop said:
Chunks of Arizona used to be completely forested and home to hundreds of thousands of folx living off the land.
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Only about 1/2 of the state is forest :shrug:

MrBishop said:
Fertile areas change...mostly through human intervention.
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:bs:

MrBishop said:
Oh..and as a final point. The people who would have to move to 'where the food is' aren't usually welcome where the food is. (Europe and the Americas)...and even if they were welcome, they'd overtax the food/crop lands..and start a whole new cycle, eh
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:confused:

We've always welcomed legal immigrants. They are our main source of blue collar labor.
 
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