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Posted on 12/08/2005 6:24:53 AM PST by Pokey78
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Gotta love Stein!
I love it....as I sit here shivering in -17 record breaking cold, even for Wyoming. Still the idiots are yapping about global warming.
I really love their claims of global warming causing an ice age, do they ever listen to themselves or are they so mesmerized by the sound of their voices that they just make noise?
Thanks for this post.
It's 7 degrees in my part of Montana this morning: it was -10 degrees yesterday. Must be that global warming.
Wyomimg is a big place. Where? Close to the WY border, in Rapid City, I have a very unique situation, it is 41 degrees on the east side of the house where the sun is shining on the thermometer. The temperature readout on the Ford Explorer parked in the shade on the west side of the house reads -9F. Global warming in just 50 feet, or if your walking in the opposite direction, I suppose it would be global cooling.
Nice post! Many great points there, especially on how rapidly the US is cleaning up its act without being involved in Kyoto.
Everyone should also remember that science and technology are advancing at a breakneck pace. What seems an insurmountable problem now may be tractable in 10 years, and trivial in 20. Spending billions or trillions of dollars on this now is not the smartest approach IMO. Especially since the actual science is far from well understood yet - what we need right now is a whole lot of data gathering and research.
Jerry Pournelle wrote many years ago that perhaps manmade "global warming" was actually saving us from an upcoming Ice Age. How ironic if that were true...
That is amazing - a 50-degree difference on one house! I think I'd almost have to get video of that - one long take, so no one can accuse you of creative editing.
I wanted to repeat this because you have put some of my thoughts into words so well for me, thank you! I am not as sceptical of Global Warming as most here, but I do think it is silly to spend all that capital at this time on a problem we really aren't sure about. When and if the time comes, I believe we'll have the technology to "fix" the problem. Be it solar reflectors in orbit, or seeding the skys to increase reflective cloud cover. Not just that, but the US would be at the forefront of those efforts.
Yeah, global warming is a serious problem, all right. I plan on making it one of my top priorities right after we recover from the Great American Heterosexual Aids Pandemic that's gonna affect every family in the country by 1990.... < /sarcasm off>
The sun does some amazing things, but if I were able to take the actual air temperature rather than the reflected benefit of direct sun on the thermometer it would be a lot closer to -9 than plus 50.
I just wanted to add one more point - any environmentalist that's really concerned about global warming and pollution should be pushing for the US to build as many nuclear power plants as possible to replace coal and oil fired plants. That would greatly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, as well as having the nice side effect of increasing our energy independence.
Another great point that I have brought up before. We SHOULD be pushing Nuclear, and very hard. Its a no-lose proposition. Everyone wins except for the handwringers.
Fact is though, most of the hard left are Luddites, and want to see us living like Native Americans (except for the "eating buffalo" part...).
I want my global warming!
Good article. Perhaps as the planet freezes up into an ice ball the likes of big Al Gore will be silenced once and for all.
Near Greybull.
GREAT stuff bump! Thanks for posting this!
I got a "C" in one of my MBA classes in the early 1980's for arguing with the professor about this. It seemed clear to me that Nuclear energy was the best way to go.
That class was supposed to be an "easy A", but I was too dumb to ask if that meant only for Liberals. The only species they want to see extinct are humankind. The professor was so against the human race that he said he'd never contribute to the problem by having children. I thought that was a good start. :-)
If Liberals never procreate, we might be on the right track.
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