Posted on 02/06/2006 11:34:58 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
"Barges? We ain't got no barges. We don't need no barges. I don't have to show you any stinking barges!"
Barges ping!
Leave the ice alone. Bring back CFCs and DDT.
Yeah, I love the smell of DDT in the morning. It smells like...barges!
The best way to deal with global warming is to deal with the causes, fossil carbon in the atmosphere, not the symptoms," he said. "However, if our efforts to control CO2 levels in the atmosphere fail and we reach a crisis, we can contemplate emergency action."
With one breath he admits that he can not forsee all of the consequences of tampering with the environment. With the next breath he states that he knows that reducing CO2 levels will have the desired effect.
The environmental models these busybodies work with are no where near capable of modeling the complexities of earth’s thermal engine for a week let alone a millennium.
If global warming exists they can only guess at what are the underlying causes let alone how it may be controlled.
Agree with your points. But it's likely that we're going to have to try something in the way of environmental engineering on a large scale in the near future. The barges are an interesting idea, anyway.
"Thousands of barges could save Europe from deep freeze..."
I'd take my chances with the cold.
But "thousand of barges" could be put to immediate excellent use for shipping the muslims back to their homelands of origin.
Then mothball the barges, in case it gets colder.
Heck, they can't even get forcast right 72 hours out much less years.
Barges? We don't have no barges! We don't have no stinking barges!
I'm losing it at this hour..
(laugh) Yeah, me, too...obviously!
Kevin Costner will save us! C'est la vie!
I also think his cost projection is low balled in the extreme.
Remember this project would be an on going possibly centuries in duration.
The biggest thing I see in this project is that the only logical power supply for these pumps is nuclear. Any other power source would require further burning of fossil fuels and an endless train of fuel tankers in to the Arctic Circle.
Most likely these nuclear power plants would have to be on submarines so that they could set below the ocean’s surface to avoid the violent storms that frequent the Arctic seas.
Manning these submarines will be difficult as the job will be boring in the extreme. And the technology to transfer the power to the barges does not exist and will need to be developed.
Or, uh, perhaps not...I seem to have misplaced my slide rule so I can't check this stuff...
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
As Shemp was to the Stooges, so was Al Gore to the Clinton Administration.
Of course these barges are low emission or hybrids. Otherwise, what kind of impact would they make on the greenies being concentrated in a small area and using big engines to blast water around. Ok, I admit I am ignorant about the engine thing.
I am contributing to GWarming this year because heating oil is expensive. Needing tips on maximizing CFC's.
Come on folks...this is very series stuff. If we let Europe freeze the mussies will be too cold to burn, rape and murder. We must be compassionate and understand their needs.
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