Posted on 12/06/2007 9:49:28 AM PST by mbarker12474
Panelists discuss climate changes, peak oil
By Jake Palmateer Staff Writer
http://www.thedailystar.com/local/local_story_340040035.html
ONEONTA _ "Kill your lawn."
That was one of the recommendations from a panel discussion based around peak oil and climate change held Wednesday night at the First United Methodist Church.
Angelika St. Laurent of Cornell University promoted growing more vegetables and fruits locally _ including on lawns _ as a way to mitigate food-supply problems related to peak oil and climate change. ...
...Hubbert [in the 1950's] accurately predicted that American petroleum production would peak in less than two decades.
... a global peak, which Fleisher said is on the verge of being reached.
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"We've lost our food independence," he said.
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"Chickens in your backyard are great fun," St. Laurent said.
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"I encourage every one of you to have at least a few weeks (of food) stored in your house," Lentz said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailystar.com ...
Moron’s I’m going to quit this PC goofy religion.
And this is the reason I call myself a Methodist in exile.
And people waste their time worrying about Mormons?
I’ve been around houses with chickens in the back yard. I hated the smell. I prefer the way the grocery store has ‘em - all dead and everything.
Hillary professes to be a Methodist.
“We’ve had climate change long before we’ve had human influence,” Fleisher said. “The critical thing is ... we may not be causing the climate change, but we are accelerating that change.”
This is where we find ourselves, we must make sacrifices in order to die slower; nobody thinks this can be avoided, they just want to drag it out and watch the suffering.
ELCA Lutherans are buckin’ for that “honor” too.
I agree. Besides, in the backyard they'd eventually thaw and stick up everything.
PCUSA, no?
Which other natioanl churche has taken a stance against Israel?
I got to thinking maybe these are “Santaria Methodists” where they need chickens for sacrifices or something? OK - I’m just kidding and don’t want to offend any real Methodists.
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Unitarian, if you count that as a religion.
Strange how this group of nimwits never reflects upon what they will do when global cooling occurs.
...outlined the concept of peak oil first put forth by M. King Hubbert in the 1950s. Hubbert accurately predicted that American petroleum production would peak in less than two decades.
OK, Hubbert accurately predicted that oil would peak by the 70's.
We're next told:
Today, peak oil generally refers to a global peak, which Fleisher said is on the verge of being reached.So what was 'accurately' predicted to have happened by the 70's is on the verge of happening almost 40 years late.
But, that's OK 'cause it still 'about to happen':
The best-case scenario is that the point at which global oil production reaches terminal decline is a decade or two away, he said.Yep, that sure was an accurate prediction. It was supposed to happen within twenty years, hasn't happened in nearly fifty, but it certainly will in another ten or twenty. What a joke. The only thing that's peaked about American oil production is the political will to allow exploration and drilling.
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