Anybody remember the head of NASA who said on NPR, “Who is to say that the climate we have now is the best one?”I think he was trying to kiss up to the republicans in Congress for funding, but he wound up walking that one back almost immediately.
The polluted, in many ways, oceans are a severe problem the public never sees, but fisherman see daily, including a friend who gave it up after his hands getting caught in the troll cable drum, and spending 4 days trapped there, next to his dead partner. But his story is in a book.
That personal tragedy leads to the search for the Malaysian Air flight, that was greatly complicated by the tons, literally, of trash and floatsom in the Indian Ocean in that “remote” part of the world. Searchers time and again thought they’d found something, only for it to be trash from various parts of the world.
Remember that old mantra: “Man can’t alter the planet”. Well he can, whether as passively as trash bags, or as actively as global thermonuclear war- which may be the only thing to get his attention. Yes, we, at least idiot chickenhawks, may be that stupid too…
I am truly glad to see posters here appreciating a great and civil conversation. I actually am neither conservative nor liberal, but believe very firmly that the same technologies that got mankind into this predicument of our pollution, is also quite capable of getting us out of it. Expecially, if we develope even newer technologies that take nature itself into account at the same time as helping mankind!
And yes, I too very much appreciate when we have thinking conservative posters with the ability to be civil, such as Bruce4671 and his wonderful responce to my own post!!
Heck, I do not even always totally disagree with the ultra right wing conservative types on this site. I just totally disagree with the tone of most of their posts!!
So once again, my thanks to you Bruce4671, especially for being such an example to even or more extreme conservative posters here!!
Dtroutma about 9 years ago
Jim needs to soak his head in that.
Jason Allen about 9 years ago
And while we’re at it, sunshine proves that night time doesn’t exist.
Odon Premium Member about 9 years ago
Read a little more, enlightenment is readily available.
BaltoBill about 9 years ago
You go that backwards. It’s the oil companies that are funding the denier claims based on falsified data.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2268070/Billionaire-Charles-Koch-secretive-fund-casts-doubt-climate-change.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/exclusive-billionaires-secretly-fund-attacks-on-climate-science-8466312.html
kaffekup about 9 years ago
Anybody remember the head of NASA who said on NPR, “Who is to say that the climate we have now is the best one?”I think he was trying to kiss up to the republicans in Congress for funding, but he wound up walking that one back almost immediately.
Dtroutma about 9 years ago
The polluted, in many ways, oceans are a severe problem the public never sees, but fisherman see daily, including a friend who gave it up after his hands getting caught in the troll cable drum, and spending 4 days trapped there, next to his dead partner. But his story is in a book.
That personal tragedy leads to the search for the Malaysian Air flight, that was greatly complicated by the tons, literally, of trash and floatsom in the Indian Ocean in that “remote” part of the world. Searchers time and again thought they’d found something, only for it to be trash from various parts of the world.
Remember that old mantra: “Man can’t alter the planet”. Well he can, whether as passively as trash bags, or as actively as global thermonuclear war- which may be the only thing to get his attention. Yes, we, at least idiot chickenhawks, may be that stupid too…
Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member about 9 years ago
Sure. And Benedict Arnold’s betrayal proves the United States is a failed nation.
Ironic Eggbeater about 9 years ago
Same thing: I am overweight, so how could there possibly be world hunger?
superposition about 9 years ago
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/briefings/201501.pdf
frodo1008 about 9 years ago
I am truly glad to see posters here appreciating a great and civil conversation. I actually am neither conservative nor liberal, but believe very firmly that the same technologies that got mankind into this predicument of our pollution, is also quite capable of getting us out of it. Expecially, if we develope even newer technologies that take nature itself into account at the same time as helping mankind!
And yes, I too very much appreciate when we have thinking conservative posters with the ability to be civil, such as Bruce4671 and his wonderful responce to my own post!!
Heck, I do not even always totally disagree with the ultra right wing conservative types on this site. I just totally disagree with the tone of most of their posts!!
So once again, my thanks to you Bruce4671, especially for being such an example to even or more extreme conservative posters here!!