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Posted on 11/07/2007 1:18:27 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
No problem. My mouth and my temper don’t exactly lay the ground work for someone instantly thinking ‘feminine’. LOL
The fact that the morons here voted her in again doesn’t speak well for the future.
SCP - don’t yah love the way he always likes sunshine and warm weather...and doesn’t like the rain??? I do.
THE one and only, yessiree....
Hi there Nord. Have only seen him a few times but like his attitude. And yes, glad we are not a major rain area.
I will take the sun any day.
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But, but, all of Hollywood believes - it's got to be true...(/sarcasm)
All that I know is that when I want opinions about geo-politics, I seek the wisdom of our fine Hollywood actors. When I want opinions of science(global somethimg..), I seek the wisdom of politicians. (/Michael Moore crap)
Just watched a newsbit on Fox about how Nancy Pelosi and Gov. Schwarznegger pay about $400 in carbon offsets every time they take a private jet trip ---- to counter the bad effects of their jet's flight on the "global warming" danger.
Had this woman in the Redwood forest talking about how this money is going to help the redwood forest continue to grow and help offset the carbon situation.
Then a woman from Tufts University with a bright smiling face talking about how wonderful the carbon offset efforts are...
Insanity knows no bounds.
VERY NICE statement!
This is a good one; thanks for the ping!
POI...how old is John Coleman? He was approx 40 as I remember back in the 70’s in Chicago.
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I don’t know, but he acts about 50...and knows his stuff, too. He explains things so much better than the others—probably because he really knows what he’s talking about. So many of the other channels’ weather people here in CA will say one report and he will say another...what he says will be right. It’s comical. He also has a series of questions to engage his audience. You think you know so much, until you find out the answers at the end of the news show. It’s a great idea/learning tool. So, I don’t know how old he is and I never really thought about it.
Back in the late 1990s, I was able to hear Coleman on a San Diego station
on Saturday (I was in Los Angeles).
He even got some time to do a bit of monologue “radio drama”.
He’d have some sort of realistic bit of fiction about a slice
of California life. Coleman delivered some darned fine
“spoken word” presentations.
Yes, he is a great spokesmen
“In its first season, though, the Weather Channel lost more than ten million dollars and generated headlines like “when it rains it bores.” The graphics were crude, Doppler radar hadn’t been invented yet, and the programming was monotonous.
Coleman, who was the president of the company, departed in 1983, after disagreements with Landmark about how the business should be run. (That year he filed a lawsuit against Landmark, but the matter was settled out of court.) After Coleman’s departure, the Weather Channel began receiving significant subscriber fees from cable providers, and this helped make the business more viable.”
“”They don’t really want us to talk about the causes of global warming,” Buzz Bernard, one of the Weather Channel’s meteorologists, told me. The position of the Weather Channel is that if you look at the last thirty years the evidence that the planet has grown warmer has nearly reached scientific consensus, and we may be at the warmest point in the last hundred years.
But whether this warming is a result of environmental or human influences is still not known, nor is it clear how long the warming cycle we are now in will last. Stu Ostro, a senior meteorologist at the Weather Channel, told me, “Once you say global warming is caused by human means, you have to say whose fault is it, and what do you do about it, and then you’re in a very difficult political situation.”
“Opinions concerning the causes of global warming remain highly contentious. But many climatologists now believe that rising temperatures produce more extreme weather—not only more frequent heat waves and droughts but also more storms and floods.
Thomas Karl, the director of the National Climatic Data Center, a branch of noaa, recently completed a study of extreme weather in the United States since 1910.
Karl, who was for a long time the darling of global-warming skeptics, concluded in the study that there has been “a persistent increase in extreme events” since the nineteen-seventies—an anomaly he attributes to global warming.”
Source: http://www.booknoise.net/johnseabrook/stories/media/weather/index.html
I'll take my chances - and build my house, that will last maybe a 100 years, 50 feet from the water, which will probably not be a problem for 10,000 YEARS!
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“I’ll take my chances - and build my house, that will last maybe a 100 years, 50 feet from the water”
Full disclosure: I am NOT a GW alarmist and see the hand of nature as greater and more substantial than anything humans are doing, in terms of current climate changes.
Yet, as relates to what you do when you build your house, the important element, if needed at all by you or your many generations of future descendants, would not be how many “feet from the water”, but how many feet above sea level. A spot of land fifty feet from the water, in some particular context, could be no more than a foot higher than the water level, and if it is near a lake or river with a record of flooding, that fifty foot distance would not be much protection.
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