Posted on 11/14/2005 2:10:22 PM PST by mhking
Just got this from the breaking news queue --
BC-APNewsAlert,0021
TOKYO (AP) -- A 6.9-magnitude quake hits ocean east of Japan; tsunami warning issued.
I am a GlobalWarming-sceptic sceptic of sorts. That is, I think there is too much knee jerk anti-GW stuff here on FR, and it makes us no better than the kneejerk GW advocates. Having said that, I am not completely convinced, and even if I was, I am not so sure what is causing it, nor am I in agreement about how to deal with it, and even if we should (instead of just adapting).
I think its obvious that the world weather goes in long and sometimes shorter cycles. I just caught a snipet of a show coming up on National Geographic about a world "cold spell" back in the early 1800's and may have been a half a century, I think the show is airing this coming weekend on either Discovery or National Geographic.
It is certain the climate is changing but it could be natural or it could be man made, like someone said we may not be able to change it but we should be able to adapt to it.
I've been a skeptic too, but the glaciers are definitely retreating... I just refuse to engage in the america bashing. I think it's the 6.3 billion people more than any individual country. I seriously don't think America with our clean cars is worse than the many countries that flout any industrial pollution control standards. We just have to roll with the punches. Whether it's happening or not I'll never agree with a bunch of crackpot Algore liberal bandaid legislation that will wind up in somebody's pocket or be used as a tool to bash republicans. Ever.
Ok if you believe man controls the weather what global warming ended the ice age?
2005/11/15 23:21:09.0 21.8N 144.5E mb5.7 A BRA MARIANA ISLANDS REGION
2005/11/15 23:14:04.0 21.8N 142.9E mb5.4 A GFZ MARIANA ISLANDS REGION
2005/11/15 23:01:18.2 22.0N 144.7E 86 M 5.7 M NEIR VOLCANO ISLANDS, JAPAN, REGION
2005/11/15 21:17:57.0 36.3N 140.9E 33 mb5.4 M GSRC NEAR E.CST EASTERN HONSHU
2005/11/15 20:20:45.4 33.4N 141.3E 10G M 6.1 M NEIR OFF EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
LOL. Kanashinagara dekimassen.
I don't believe man controls the weather, I'm surprised you took that from my remarks. What I meant to say is that I fear that the exhaust from 6.3 BILLION people may be what is doing this, this time. I frankly don't think we can do ANYTHING about it, and the liberals solutions are like putting a bandaid on a severed limb.
There were 4 billion people when I was a kid maybe 35 years ago, they predicted a population explosion, and in this prediction they were right. I think all we can do is adapt, maybe live further from the ocean. One good thing, if they are right about greenhouse gases, the sun should not be as big a burner as they say, the weather should be hotter, but the planetary filter of the UV rays should be better.
I think New Orleans is going to get flooded again and again and again. I don't think they will *ever* successfully build a new levee system.
We will see what we will see. Que sera sera.
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