You might as well turn up your thermostat and buy the car - and all the regular lightbulbs you want...
Five Ways the World Can End
(B)efore we get into detail, let's dismiss two things that won't cause the demise of the planet.
Global warming is bad for people who live in low-lying coastal areas and at the edges of deserts, but the truth is that Earth been much warmer throughout most of the past 500 million years, and life did just fine.
On the other side of things, a new ice age would end most human habitation of Canada, northern Europe, the northern U.S. and Russia, but the tropics would stay about the same — and there'd be a lot more land to go around in south Florida as sea levels dropped.
But at any given time, four of the five following scenarios really could cause the end of life on Earth — and the fifth almost certainly will.
Massive asteroid impact
Massive volcanic eruptions
Nuclear war
Black hole
The expanding sun
I'll take Global Warming any day.
"...but the truth is that Earth been much warmer throughout most of the past 500 million years, and life did just fine."
ReplyDeleteYou mean when dinosaurs ruled the earth? The Earth has been in an ice age more than not during the short space of time humans have been schlepping around.
Massive asteroid impact - 65 million years ago killed the dinosaurs and allowed your shrew like ancestors to evolve.
Massive volcanic eruptions - Yellowstone super volcano erupts approximately every 600,000 years. That will cause an ice age.
Nuclear war - man made like current global warming crisis.
Black holes - like chromosomes, how do you know you have any?
The expanding sun - 4.6 billion years away - do you think there will be any surviving fossil evidence of our existence other than a geologic layer of nuclear fallout?
Rose, your goose is as good as cooked - on a fire fueled by hydrocarbon.
Dred
Dred, Y'er just crazy. But, it sounds like y'er starting to get it.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see you are using the short version, musta gotten tiring typing "Dreadful Anonymous." If ya just get a pseudonym, you wouldn't have to type "Dred"
Jus' sayin.'
If I type Dred, you type pseudonym. If I sign my comment, Dreadful Anonymous - it was.
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Rose, stick to the local news and the topic of your weblog. You need to play to your strengths and not the psudoscience surrounding an issue you obviously know next to nothing about.
ReplyDeleteThat's right, I forgot. The debate is over. ALL the scientists all the world over agree. We must bow and scrape to the Global Warming Gods.
ReplyDeleteRemember Baghdad Bob?
Since I used to live in Fortuna and now live in Minnesota…I can attest to the fact that this is one of the coldest years on record in most of the US and probably the world. Sunspots have far greater impact than anything we, puny, humans could possibly do. Here’s a great example of how cold it is this year taken from the national news today (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28541133/).
ReplyDeleteI am not a scientist but it seems to me that weather is a “chaotic” system and cannot be ‘predicted’ much better today with all of our technology than it was over 100 years ago using The Old Farmer’s Almanac.
Also the arrogance of the ‘global warming’ folks in assuming that we could destroy the planet, even if we tried, is hubris at best. I am not suggesting that we do nothing and bury our collective heads in the sand; however, outlawing asthma inhalers that contain CFC’S is another example of the “pandemonium” (the-sky-is-falling) that the global warming folks subscribe to.
Bottom line, if anyone believes that the earth is getting warmer in 2009 and wants to prove it please drop me a line so you can help me shovel all of the white, fluffy, “global warming” off my driveway!
-Chris
Rose - There is an enormous debate about global warming among the scientific community. It addresses a lot of very complex issues and is argued by people with a vast comprehension of a variety data and analyses. The problem is, most people don't have a well-informed comprehension of the science behind global warming, so they rely on journalists and science writers to write dumbed-down versions of the science, and often (as, it seems, is true in your case) further rely on pundits and opinion columnists to break the debate down further.
ReplyDeleteWhatever the case, the real point is, it's obviously fine if you want to espouse your opinions about globalwarming on your blog -- that's what blogs are for right? Just know what your opinions are, and keep them off to the side. After all, you're blog is called "watchpaul."
The District Attorney's Office just got two big convictions yesterday. They're in the T-S. Why didn't you mention those?
If you don't like winter why the hell would you move to Minnesota? Average temperatures are rising world wide. That means that weather will trump climate over the short term. Snowfall will be higher by region. Global warming doesn't mean that you will be living in Hell if you live in Minnesota. It does mean that climates are changing. But, maybe not in the direction that you expect for the region you live in. It is not linear. The cause for the average world-wide rise in temperature is carbon loading of the atmosphere. Denying that it is happening is an exorcise in stupidity. Aping the worn-out argument that man is too puny to cause change in the make-up our atmosphere ignores the fact that an all out nuclear war waged in the northern hemisphere would cause a nuclear winter in both the northern and southern hemispheres. Not taking into account the amount of carbon that we are pumping into the thin layer of atmosphere that surrounds this planet marks climate change deniers as non-thinkers who are easy marks for propaganda and who have been duped by energy companies and the lawmakers and media which enjoy a profitable alliance. So go shovel your snow. Maybe the physical exertion will pop your head out of your ass, and if you are lucky, your head will clear enough for you to begin to think for yourself, once again, if you ever had that ability in the first place.
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Geez, Dred. There you go again, picking a fight.
ReplyDeleteAs for 1:32 - I hadn't gotten around to reading the paper yet. Too much else going on.
But I guess you're talking about a rape conviction and the pipe plea sentencing...
Yep, I'll post those.
And any links or info about the cyclist case.
They did arrest a guy, right? Another Bear?
The fat has been trimmed off the wide ass of the middle class by the same power elite that dream up reasons for climate change denial. Instead of single payer medical insurance that would make health care available for all, the same elitist class purchase war, with your money, and pocket huge profits. In return you can shop at Walmart and eat from any government subsidized dollar menu offered by fast food chain restaurants. Socialism for the masses, but only after your taxed labor has been skimmed by an elitist society that has cozied up to your representative government officials. Corporatism is the God of the few and the devil to the rest. Cheap sheets and global climate change for the labor class. Walmart and MacDonalds is doing well. Rose approves.
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You don't have a job or a wife, do you, Dred.
ReplyDeleteDred,
ReplyDeleteThere is no need to lower your social standards and attack another blogger, or am I jumping to conclusions (“…non-thinkers who are easy marks for propaganda… pop your head out of your ass”)?
My opinion is as valid as yours and is based on a variety of things including many of the same ‘climate experts’ who have completely changed their stance from “man-made global warming” theories to something along the lines of ‘we’re now in a cooling phase’. As I said I am not opposed to making the necessary changes to clean up man’s pollution; I happen to disagree as to how sever man’s impact really is (climate change? As if the climate is ever stable?).
Oh, and by the way, I never said anything to imply that “If you don't like winter why the hell would you move to Minnesota?”. I am very fortunate to have a job that allows much travel around the USA. Although Humboldt County is a wonderful place (I lived there many years) I happily chose to move from Fortuna to Minnesota. I enjoy a (real) change of seasons, a white Christmas and lower cost of living.
Regards, -Chris A. (not afraid to hide behind “Anonymous”)
PS: feel free to get in the last word. It appears from your other posts that you will not be able to control yourself. I understand…it’s ok…
I own my own business and am married - to my wife's eternal despair.
ReplyDeleteChris A., I could care less if you are hiding behind anonymous statements or signing your name. As I do not know you and you don't know me I can vigorously attach your statements and your anonymous self so long as Rose doesn't pull my plug. If you want to give your statements the authority of your signature, be my guest. But, I warn you to be cautious. Irrational comments are often accompanied by a signature. Rose can personally attest to this fact. While you may believe that your opinion is as valid as mine, you will be astonished to find that I disagree. But, go ahead, make a comment and sign your name. You're a daisy if you do.
Dreadful Anonymous
Social standards? Here? Huh?
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Rose, you accuse others of not having a job when you don't have one yourself
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