Posted on 02/09/2008 12:25:57 PM PST by neverdem
What would we do without experts? When the end comes, I hope the experts are the first to get it.
We might as well be panicking over comets in the sky as taking these news stories seriously.
I saw some economic development commercials from the state of Michigan today. Actor Jeff Daniels is the spokesperson.
He said “Green is the New Gold,” touting Michigan’s new businesses focused on environmental issues.
Yup, it’s all about the money...from our pockets to theirs. What a crock.
There’s going to be a New Ica Age ping, Xcamel.
You know, it would be worth it to go through another Ice Age to shut up the enviro-wackos and the green schemers.
Of course, they’ll figure out a way to say global warming caused global cooling.
And the Mainstream Media will go right along.
Does this mean we get to keep our light bulbs?
Of course, now we’ll need all the new sources of green energy even more to provide all that heat were going to need.
That’s the ticket!
I like the cover
I thought we were all gonna’ die in 2012?
If Solar sunspots hit a new ‘low’ , we will all have to go to hell to stay warm.
Of course, many would say the U.S. is going to hell, so I can’t decide. Live in hell, or go to hell.
What a choice!
Ping
No, no, no.... Our catchy slogan can't be given as a negative. What's the opposite of green?
If the astronomers said that a comet was going to hit the earth in a few months, it might actually *be* time to panic.
These are real scientists, just like those astronomers. In fact they are a sort of astronomer, or astrophysicist anyway. The scary thing about this particular Maunder minimum, it that what it turns out to be, is that we are also overdue, a little, for the next real, as opposed to mini, ice age. Do these sort of solar events trigger a bigger true "ice age" if conditions are otherwise right? That is something we probably don't know. 'Course we might get a chance to find out, maybe even in the lifetime of us old dudes. More likely our grandchildren will get to find out, and curse the name of Al Gore, who got the "powers that were" stampeding in the wrong direction. (even though he really just attempted to look like he was leading the herd).
HA! Your mention of Cornell led me to wonder how publicity hound Carl Sagan would have injected himself into the current scare if he was still around: "Rising sea levels will kill billions and billions of people..."
So was post 68. :-)
Response: I really hate to tell you this, but the truth will not even faze him. Nary a flicker will you see. Truth never impacts a politician.
Oh no, I’m so sure we could do it because man is creating global warming right so why not global warming on the sun?
The sarcasm switch is in the ON position.
GO BLUE! Being a tarheel fan that works for me...unless you want red...NONE of my teans are red. :(
It’s still -36 on the porch today. -42 downtown in the urban heat island. If this keeps up much longer I expect to have sabertooth tigers in the yard and wooly mammoths chowing down on my shrubs.
Authorities have built new observatories all over the planet to watch for NEAR’s.
Authorities have built a storage facility near the North Pole to keep seed stock in.
Authorities have built an entire underground city to house the ‘calamity government’.
It’s not what they would or are doing that worries me.
It’s what the general public will do.
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