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dtroutma
said, 8 months ago
Well, you can actually ski on sand dunes, done it.
Murphy224 said, 8 months ago
Another failure of this administration.
cjr53 said, 8 months ago
Yes, that makes sense. President Obama controls the weather. President Obama causes gas prices to rise, but when they fall, it’s the market and nothing to do with President Obama. President Obama is a Kenyan, and his birth certificate was faked. He started wars in iraq and afghanistan. Catching and executing obl was an error. He tanked the economy.
What a bunch of hog-wash.
Fact is he didn’t start the wars, he didn’t cause gas prices to rise, he is an American, born in America. He did catch and execute obl. There are more jobs and fewer people out of work, despite the best efforts of the r/w, who’s #1 goal is to make him a one-term president, even at the cost of sinking America. What a bunch of r/w babies.
Jeddidyah said, 8 months ago
For a $175,000.00 a year it isn’t worth your average house representative to do all that hard work when your friendly local corporate lobbist is so willing to do it for them. All they have to do is vote as they are told. After all, signing all those pledges not to this and not to do that is so limiting and binding. Jeez, what you have to do to get elected these days…
Gary McSpook said, 8 months ago
It’s time for the scientists and the members of Congress who actually understand science to join forces and start people thinking about what is going to happen to this little world of ours if we don’t take HUGE steps towards slowing the warming to whatever degree we can. Imagine the shortages that are going to confront us if there are prolonged droughts, if the weather patterns change so that areas that were once fertile and now parched; and large areas, formerly calm, are subjected to monsoon-like conditions. Want another Hurricane Katrina every month, or tornado activity where it has never occured before? We are nearing the point of no return on this issue; it’s time to sweep the brain-dead nay-sayers out of the way and get to work!
Gary McSpook said, 8 months ago
@Murphy224
Unless you are making a joke (and a poor one at that), you are truyly a damned fool.
Doughfoot said, 8 months ago
Climate Change is a dead issue. No amount of scientific data will change that. There are too many variables, the actions necessary are too vast, and the results too slow in coming.
But do not despair! In the long run only clean and renewable energy sources are either sustainable or efficient enough for future needs. Political action may reduce the pain of transition, and spare much hardship, but in the end it will be Necessity that will do most of it. When the necessary efficiencies of scale have been achieved in a few countries, and the potential is realized, even the Regressive States of America will have to get on board.
“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. They that will not be counseled cannot be helped. If you will not hear Reason, she will surely rap your knuckles.” — Poor Richard’s Almanacs, ca. 1750.
walruscarver2000 said, 8 months ago
@Murphy224
Now weather control is the job of the president? What next? Setting you up on Saturday night?
masterskrain said, 8 months ago
Even if you believe in “Climate Change” or not, we all have to remember one important thing…THERE IS NO PLANET “B”!
We can’t move if we screw up the Earth, so doing whatever you can to help maintain the environment is NOT a bad idea.
Even if it’s something as simple as recycling plastic bottles instead of tossing them in the garbage. Every little bit helps.
motivemagus said, 8 months ago
@Doughfoot
What do you mean “a dead issue?” Time to get a little perspective. EVERY major political party IN THE WORLD except ONE acknowledges Anthropogenic Global Warming and that we need to do something about it. There are things that can be done, and research we can do to figure out how to reverse what we can. I haven’t given up yet.
jack75287 said, 8 months ago
@cjr53
Again about the body oil. Sorry CJ the president cannot make it go lower but he can mess it up and cause it to go higher with a lot of regulation.
Government makes over 26 cents a gallon while the oil companies make a little more then 2 cents.
So yes they can.
http://www.dailymarkets.com/economy/2011/04/27/gasoline-taxes-vs-exxon-profit-per-gallon/
jack75287 said, 8 months ago
@Gary McSpook
“It’s time for the scientists and the members of Congress who actually understand science to join forces and start people thinking about what is going to happen to this little world of ours if we don’t take HUGE steps towards slowing the warming to whatever degree we can. Imagine the shortages that are going to confront us if there are prolonged droughts, if the weather patterns change so that areas that were once fertile and now parched; and large areas, formerly calm, are subjected to monsoon-like conditions. Want another Hurricane Katrina every month, or tornado activity where it has never occured before? We are nearing the point of no return on this issue; it’s time to sweep the brain-dead nay-sayers out of the way and get to work”!
Ok but most of the pollution today comes from China and India.
zoidknight said, 8 months ago
@cjr53
Actually, he can control the gas prices. By closing refineries with EPA mandates. Just as Carter did.
zoidknight said, 8 months ago
@Gary McSpook
Most solutions include forced sterilization of third world countries who continue to overpopulate.
Ms. Ima said, 8 months ago
The climate changes naturally. This was a warmer year. No matter what we do it will have swings up and down. There were 300 feet tall glaciers covering North America 30,000 years ago. If not for a natural warming trend none of us would be here today.
And the utilities had nothing to do with it. In fact there haven’t been much of any new energy plants produced in the past 40 years and controlled energy cutoffs ran the whole summer (forcing companies to produce their own power through generators – the most inefficient way to run things).