Posted on 06/22/2012 4:14:16 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
The economist Thorstein Veblen once quipped that "invention is the mother of necessity." That was before the age of air-conditioning, but no technology better illustrates Veblen's point. Having developed efficient cooling, we've designed homes, businesses and transportation systems that are completely dependent on it, while the resulting greenhouse emissions create the need for even more air-conditioning.
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We must break this feedback loop, but what does one say to someone living in one of the tropical nations where much of the increase in cooling demand is expected? Surely not that Americans are addicted to air-conditioning and cant give it up, but we expect Southeast Asians to get by without air-conditioners because they're used to the heat.
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Hes from Hawaii, O.K.? said Mr. Obamas senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.
LOL
Swamp Cooler.
That actually works.
For those not familiar with these Wackos, these quotes will AMAZE you AND SHOULD FRIGHTEN EVERYONE
We need to get some broad based support, to capture the publics imagination SO WE HAVE TO OFFER UP SCARY SCENARIOS, MAKE SIMPLIFIED, DRAMATIC STATEMENTS AND MAKE LITTLE MENTION OF ANY DOUBTS Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. - Dr. Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Climatology, lead author of many IPCC reports
Isnt the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? ISNT IT OUR RESPONSIBLITY TO BRING THAT ABOUT? - Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Program
Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control. - Professor Maurice King
GIVING SOCIETY CHEAP, ABUNDANT ENERGY WOULD BE THE EQUIVALENT OF GIVING AN IDIOT CHILD A MACHINE GUN - Prof Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University
MY THREE MAIN GOALS WOULD BE TO REDUCE HUMAN POPULATION TO ABOUT 100 MILLION WORLDWIDE, DESTROY THE INDUSTRIAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND SEE WILDERNESS, WITH ITS FULL COMPLEMENT OF SPECIES, RETURNING THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. -Dave Foreman, co-founder of Earth First!
A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal. - Ted Turner, founder of CNN and major UN donor
" I SUSPECT THAT ERADICATING SMALL POX WAS WRONG. IT PLAYED AN IMPORTANT PART IN BALANCING ECOSYSTEMS. - John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
IF I WERE REINCARNATED I WOULD WISH TO BE RETURNED TO EARTH AS A KILLER VIRUS TO LOWER HUMAN POPULATION LEVELS. - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, patron of the World Wildlife Fund
A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells; the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people. We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many apparently brutal and heartless decisions. - Prof Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb
Complex technology of any sort is an assault on human dignity. IT WOULD BE LITTLE SHORT OF DISASTROUS FOR US TO DISCOVER A SOURCE OF CLEAN, CHEAP, ABUNDANT ENERGY, BECAUSE OF WHAT WE MIGHT DO WITH IT. - Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute
The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet. - Jeremy Rifkin, Greenhouse Crisis Foundation
GIVING SOCIETY CHEAP, ABUNDANT ENERGY WOULD BE THE EQUIVALENT OF GIVING AN IDIOT CHILD A MACHINE GUN . - Prof Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University
The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We cant let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US. WE HAVE TO STOP THESE THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES RIGHT WHERE THEY ARE. - Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund
Weve got to ride this global warming issue. EVEN IF THE THEORY OF GLOBAL WARMING IS WRONG, WE WILL BE DOING THE RIGHT THING IN TERMS OF ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY. - Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation
The emerging environmentalization of our civilization and the need for vigorous action in the interest of the entire global community will inevitably have multiple political consequences. Perhaps the most important of them will be a gradual change in the status of the United Nations.
The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe. - Professor Daniel Botkin
We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis - David Rockefeller, Club of Rome Ex.Member
Isnt the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? ISNT IT OUR RESPONSIBLITY TO BRING THAT ABOUT? - Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Program
"Molo-hamba kukule uphilile diphilile wene-we we kalimba molo etuwewe", perhaps?
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That's exactly what they want. Less people = a better planet. It's better for the environment and the animals!
Air conditioning has ruined the nation. They used to come and go from D.C. There were no career politicians before air conditioning.
Don't you know how it works? It's just regular air that's had the water and dust removed.
Swamp coolers are great in the low humidity west! We used them many times in the 1960s. In the humid South they cause mold and mildew problems. Hard candy does not stay hard long with one of them.
The English use global warming as a cover for their incredible cheapness. Anyone who has ever lived in GB knows that they hate turning the heat on in winter. You are just supposed to put on another sweater (or fur coat).
Stupidity, wrapped in lies and covered in bullsh1t. When will this jerk lead the way and eschew the ac.ad
Save the world. Reduce greenhouse emissions.
Kill yourself.
Love,
Laz
Yes. That makes it fake. The real air is outside and unconditioned.
LOL! I’ve done that!
20 lb block of ice in a pan in front of a fan LoL
Good luck with that...ever been in a server room? They're ice cold for a reason......our computer-driven world would cease to exist very rapidly.
These nimrods who somehow fantasize about the "good old days" where one built character sweating on the front porch -fan in one hand and ice cold lemonade in the other (hey...if ac is bad, is refrigeration far behind?) have no clue what they wish for.
Music to my ears!
Then you must eat rotten food, because all food in a refrigerator is “fake”.
When they pry my cold dead fingers away from the thermostat.
They don’t call this place Texas for nothing !
That’s all I used in the Sonoran desert.
I don’t think it would work for a flip in Tx at 46% humidity.
Dang...and we just got air conditioning in the outhouse.
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