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PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH'S POLICIES STAND TO DROWN YOUR CHILDREN - ACT NOW!
From Bunny to Burly
According to your logic, people should not bother to clean trash from the beaches of Lake Michigan because every five years or so a whole ton of fish die and wash up on shore.
We should feel free to throw lit cigarettes into the dry brush of our national forests and start fires because occasionally lighting strikes a forest and starts a fire.
In other words, according to your logic, since the earth already has natural disasters (earthquakes, volcano eruptions, tsunami, fires) we should feel free to create additional disasters.
Why not deliberately raise the global temperature, raise the level of the oceans, change the growing seasons, endanger our agricultural food supply and disrupt the food chain of both wild and domesticated animals? There's a slight chance that there will be a humongous volcanic eruption that will do the same thing, so why not beat Mother Nature to the punch? And if we do all these things AND there is a humongous volcanic eruption, well, I assume you'll be escaping in your own private rocket ship, because things will really suck here on the ground.
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Bunny
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June 1, 2005
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global warming
Manmade? I don't think so. One volcano eruption puts more greenhouse gases into the air than all the coal fired power plants on the planet. Is there glogal warming? Yes, I think there is but is it manmade? I think not. The earth is millions of years old. You're saying the last 200 years? You're smarter than that, Limey old mate.
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Burly
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June 1, 2005
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Bunny
Well put.
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Limey
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June 1, 2005
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Dylan
I knew I was overlooking something. Damn!
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Limey
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June 1, 2005
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Tiger
The vast majority of scientists who specialisein climatology - in America, Europe and other countries - agree that global warming has been taking place as a result of man's activities over the last 200 or so years.
I'll go with them.
posted by
Limey
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June 1, 2005
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But, but, but...
if we implement expensive environmental protections, we won't make as much money and won't get to enjoy as much conspicuous and wasteful luxury and shift the costs for those benefits onto the working poor and future generations!
What will we do? Oh, my poor SUV!
posted by
Dylan24
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May 31, 2005
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From Bunny to TigerPrincess
You wrote:
"However once upon a time when no humans at all lived on the earth there was a big ice storm that froze everything permanently. If the earth can go into such an extreme htat everything would freeze, wouldn't it make sense that the earth could go the oppisite way where it gets so hot that it burns everything up???? "
1. During the various ice ages, the entire planet did not freeze. There were warm and hot areas of the planet.
2. The parts of the earth covered by glaciers did not freeze permanently. If they had, they would still be frozen today.
3. There were also times when the temperature of the Earth as a whole was milder than it is today. Places that have little or no plant life due to the cold had plants. Nevethless, at no time was everything "burned up."
4. The climate changes that caused the major warm and cold periods happened over thousands of years. They were most likely caused by a complex combination of solar output, the distance of the Earth from the sun, the position and height of the continents, water circulation in the oceans and the composition of the atmosphere.
5. Our greenhouse gasses are warming our atmosphere far quicker than it was ever warmed in the past.
6. Global warming will not kill all life on earth. The earth will survive. And many humans will survive too. Just make sure you are one of them, and you won't have anything to worry about. This is what George Bush does.
posted by
Bunny
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May 31, 2005
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Okay
you got a point. Our president is being cautious and making sure that he doesn't appropriate millions and millions of federal dollars to make the environment worse. However once upon a time when no humans at all lived on the earth there was a big ice storm that froze everything permanently. If the earth can go into such an extreme htat everything would freeze, wouldn't it make sense that the earth could go the oppisite way where it gets so hot that it burns everything up????
posted by
tigerprincess
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May 31, 2005
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ginnieb
I do so agree.
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Limey
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May 31, 2005
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zenresistance
The GAO apart - its credibility is open to debate - the recent global warming findings are alarming in the extreme.
As always, thanks for contributing.
posted by
Limey
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May 31, 2005
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The GAO
*is* partisan. That's a well-known fact here in the states. It's the *congressional* investigative arm, and it without fail it contradicts the White House's equivalent or minimizes its findings. It's been that way for decades. There may be a Separation of Powers between the Executive and the Legislative Branches, but there's *always* a tug of war for power and influence.
Years ago, the GAO said the Clinton White House's gloabl warming research was total crap, and the GAO is still staffed by about 90% the same people from the 1990s. The same was true for welfare reform, balanced budgets, immigration, etc. Every time the White House comes out with a report or some kind of statement, the GAO comes out with some kind of slight -- either true or "relatively true".
I just wanted to clear that bit up, not of your point but of the credibility of the GAO. (Not that the White House's cred is all dancing and singing.)
I will keep my comments on global warming, global cooling and ice ages to myself on this one.
posted by
zenresistance
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May 31, 2005
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Those statistics are alarming!
I think his money goes elsewhere. :( That was one election we were sorry we couldn't vote.
posted by
ginnieb
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May 31, 2005
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Tanoo
Everything does in the face of American might!
posted by
Limey
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May 31, 2005
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*212 of the 244 glaciers on the Antarctic peninsula are retreating .... OMG!
posted by
Tanoolicious
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May 31, 2005
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