Al Gore call your office.

“A couple of days of WEATHER has nothing to do with climate change.”

Agreed, but the Earth’s climate has been changing for more than 4 billion years. But now that some have chosen to make a career out of climate fear mongering, many seem to have forgotten this fact.

My gosh, Cathymac, you sure go to extremes! Who mentoned killing off people? Not I, that’s for sure.

When we get too many humans on the earth, God or some other being intervenes with a plague or draught or flooding, etc. Look at how Bangladesh loses thousands in floods almost every year. Then we have sub-Sahara were nothing grows and the sand storms “take care” of thousands. The horrible tsunami “took care” of thousands in Thailand and Sri Lanka.

We “took care” of tens of thousands of Japanese with an atomic bomb. Those Japanese islands were way overpopulated at that time aside from the fact that the emperor wanted to kill Americans.

How many Iraqis were killed in the first Iraq war under Papa Bush? Tens of thousands, I’ve heard.

No, Cathymac, I’m not proposing killing some people to cool the earth. S-t happens to “take care” of overpopulaton without you or me doing ANYthing.

Personally I don’t think we can do anything about the rhythm of nature. Change is built-in, and WE just have to adjust and adept to fit in. In the scheme of things, we’re aren’t very important

Overpopulation? Oh jeez, Lovisa, that is so 1968. Did anyone happen to inform you that Paul Ehrlich was proven to be a complete moron? It’s true, the population bomb turned out to be a chimera.

In fact, the developed world – including China, which is not developed per se, but because of numbers is worth considering – is currently operating at a below-replacement rate for human life. By 2050 the population is going to begin a rapid decline and our progeny will be PRAYING for more people.

Lovisa, you said a mighty mouthful in your last para of post #8. I had two personal occasions when your truth was brought home in spades:

1. On a small ship in a major typhoon in the Philippine Sea, when all our equipment failed except the two main diesel engines. Just waiting helplessly under the relentless pounding of those gigantic waves for the engines to fail and the ship to roll over. When the typhoon finally and mercifully stopped, we found that our steel maindeck had cracked all the way across. Another day of that storm and 120 sailors might have gone to a watery and unknown grave. We are nothing compared to nature. That is for sure.

2. You mentioned the sands of the Sahara. Long, long ago, I once stood in those sands along the River Niger, waiting for a little paddle-wheel boat to take me downriver. I finally spotted the boat, and thought at first that it was a mirage. The sand dunes were so high, I could not see the river; and the boat looked like it was moving through the sands. I looked around me at the desolation and then down at my feet. Inches from my toes was one little, pink flower, a refugee from ecological disaster. Nature is a mighty thing. We are, despite all our vaunted technology, nothing but putty in her hands.

“It’s Dec. 21-not 12″

yes, it is.. typo..

“I’ll never understand the indignation of conservatives at anything resembling conservation of resources, limiting pollution”

Kevin, gross assumption on your part. Most conservatives hunt and/or fish so are very likely to be more informed on these issue than liberals. Those who hunt and fish were conservationists long before it became fashionable.. Being a conservationist is much more than talking about GW over a glass of wine.

My BIG problem with the current global warming bullshit, if someone needs fairy tales to buy into the importance of the environment, they don’t know squat about the environment and it’s importance now do they ?

If you want to talk about the environment, I’ll be your huckleberry..

ACT-

maybe, maybe not..

Scientists have found two large leaks in Earth’s magnetosphere, the region around our planet that shields us from severe solar storms.
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The leaks are defying many of scientists’ previous ideas on how the interaction between Earth’s magnetosphere and solar wind occurs: The leaks are in an unexpected location, let in solar particles in faster than expected and the whole interaction works in a manner that is completely the opposite of what scientists had thought.
It is expected to peak around 2012, bringing lots of sunspots, flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs).

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,468268,00.html

Ha, ha, ha, Cathymac. I’m laughing, I guess.

Good night!

Woof,
No jacket yet, though he says he sent it. My bad for leaving it behind, though. I’ve heard of the “ski train” but know very little about it or whether it’s worth taking. What do you know?

I’m a bit broke for a while what with the move and the month and a half without a paycheck. But I hear I’ve not to fear, the ski season is long.

Don’t they have a Burlington Coat Factory anywhere nearby? Go in there with even just lunch money and I guarantee you will come out with a nice warm winter coat.

It might be pink, or have tassles or racing stripes, depending on what your lunch investment was going to be, but it’s better than walking around Denver in a windbreaker in December!

Oh he’s one of them fancy guys, ok I see.

Hey Kevin, if there is a Burlington Coat Factory you can go to the hat section and they still sell those classic 1940s versions like Tom Landry used to wear. It will go nicely with your black leather gloves, wool coat and wing tips. You’ll look just like Clark Gable.

My what an image, I feel a Photoshop coming on …

I just overheard someone talking about the ski train yesterday, $59 round trip, to start up next week or so. Runs only Sat and Sunday for now, Friday, Sat, and Sunday near the end of January.

My skis are ancient, I’m finding out, and look to be half the width of what is being sold in stores, I’m guessing on account of the powder.

I’d really like to go this year, even if just once on rentals. But it might be another year before I can get a new pair to call my own.

And yeah, I understand I-70 is a real mess when it’s nasty. The train would be worth the money.