How Many Here Believe in Global Warming?

[sandy82]

[morrcomm]

[GAYTTO]

[makidas]

Coffee and smokes! What else ya need, eh? That's pretty funny the Bostonian thing. I know I for one am looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

[sandy82]

GAYTTO, being awake at 5:30 am is cruel and unusual punishment! I'm glad you have the coffee and cigarettes. By the way, coffee prices here are expected to go up. Reason: most South American coffee enters the U.S. through.....New Orleans.

I agree with you. The similarities and differences among languages--and the ways they affect cultures, and the ways cultures affect them--are very interesting topics. But not at 5:30 am!

I had never thought about Bostonia as a place. It's a great notion. It reminds me of a true story that repeats itself with some frequency. Someone named Smith in Albuquerque or Santa Fe, New Mexico, will write a letter to Washington about his Social Security benefits. He will often receive a reply that says:

"Dear Mr. Smith,

"It is our usual policy not to write letters to foreign countries, but since you sound like an American, here is the information you requested." :)

C'est vrai. Aucun badinage ici!
No joke. It's true.

[GAYTTO]

[sandy82]

[makidas]

Marlboros here in America, (at least where I live), are $5.25 a pack (USD).

[GAYTTO]

[sandy82]

[Dog]

Quick note to all:
Kyoto Protocol was rejected by the senate on a massive basis [both parties voted NO] wee lbefor 2000. Those who are really bad a Math should not try to use statistics, the AVERAGE temperature is actually a Sample Average and not an absolute value, surface temperatures are subject to inflated values due to location of collection [airport aprons and roof tops above black tar pavements] actual radiosonde and satellite data contradict models which are pure theory in need of constant testing. The natural cycles of sunspots [high end just ending] cause fluctuations in temp.
It serves no good purpose to cripple the dominant economy on the planet, since once the demand for goods in the US slackens the economies of the rest of the nations will collapse even more [ see Great Depression and Hawley Smoot Tariff]
Should we all be worried? No! Should we all conserve? Yes! But under no circumstances should we ever trade freedom for safety. Every weatherman is inaccurate in some degree, all climatologist are weathermen, ergo all climatologist are inaccurate in some degree.
Pray for peace, but keep your firearm of choice loaded and at hand.

[sandy82]

[Dog]

[missypuss]

Can I just say that Im missing Morcomms contribution to the mix already..
The older you get the more obvious it seems that our respective countries are doing little if nigh all for the citizens of our respective countries except bleeding us dry with taxes and charges for working..
And spending our pensions ..
And then cos we will eventually be such an aging population ..
Beginning to train children from the day they start school about how important it is to work and pay taxes to your government cos when you are old no doubt you will request your governments help with healthcare/respite/burial..
Mean while lets legalise euthanasia ..
Ease the policy in gently while kyoto and hurricanes and wars are happening..
That way we can kill off our decrepid and elderly poorer citizens when the time comes so they dont become a burden on the state..
Hey I wonder if thats what Katrina was about ..
Get rid of a multitude of poor and elderly non contributers rather quickly??

[sandy82]

[missypuss]

Sorry guys ..
Re read that whole statement (and) for euthanasia..
Read "assisted suicide"...........................................
Just being tried to be passed in our parliament................
As we speak...

[sandy82]

[missypuss]

Have PMd you to try to make it a little bit clearer Sandy..
Hope I made sense? :wink:

[morrcomm]

[sandy82]

[sandy82]

[morrcomm]

[hailtheprinceofdarkness]

[Cwolf_FA]

That's one of the worse things about the world today. Everything suddenly becomes political. Take global warming. Liberals say how it's happening and warn to be careful about the environment. In response conservatives get angry, demand how our great nations could possibly be causing damage to the world, and then proceed to deny that anything is even happening. Global warming is fact. There's substantial evidence and the scientist's working to disprove it are either politically minded or just stubborn. In my opinion it is because of our actions, but it may be that it's because of something else. Still people shouldn't need an excuse like that to take better care of the world we live in.

PS if you're gonna talk about fear related news spend 10 minutes watching FOX. It's almost guaranteed that you'll find some scary stuff. And the only way to keep the scary stuff from happening is to stick with the current government.

[tnot]

i personally dont believe in global warming but to be honest it dosent really matter much because there so much else wrong with the environment that were screwed either way

[kinkybc]

thats my question. Why do we ask if there is global warming? is the basic question whether or not carbon dioxide is really a greenhouse gas? After all, if that's not good science, then the rest is questionable.

[Calimore]

While I believe today is Tuesday here, I know that Jesus led me to Enlightenment. Others may take another course to enlightenment, but that is what has worked for me.

Likewise, while I believe global warming may be a valid theory, I know we are experiencing climate change. It's happened many times, sometimes resulting in what is called "ice ages" and will continue to happen whether man contributes to the process or not.

So, I must abstain from voting as your question is, in itself, invalid. Or so I believe.

Cheers!

[DrFier]

"From now on, when people ask me 'Do you believe in global warming?' I'm simply going to respond with 'Do you believe in gravity'" -Neil Tyson (American physicist)

There are people who point out scientists are divided on the issues. Last I heard that divide was 12,378 believe it does exist and 3 do not.

[Glasnerven]

I'm not at all surprised to see that climate change denial and Christian belief go hand in hand. Of course, it's only one data point, but it would be very interesting to see just how closely those two things track.