You name it I'm sick of it

Comment #6

time*treat — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:08:29 GMT

Sources tell me that duct tape and plastic sheeting will protect me until expert help arrives. ;-)

Comment #5

konane — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:04:21 GMT

<br />If decimated rainforest areas turn into Gobi desert-like climates then looks like those people will have to adapt to living in circumstances they created. Can't say they haven't been informed otherwise for several decades.<br /><br />Think the reluctance about doing something may be trying to re-establish what was, rather than doing what makes sense and going forward. Change is difficult for many but like Jim695 pointed out, throwing money at a problem is only a feel good approach.<br... [ More ]

Comment #4

jim695 — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:56:49 GMT

Americans are afraid of what they don't understand, and spending money at it, whatever "it" might be at any given moment, somehow makes us feel more secure. We're a capitalist nation, and we always have been; from the moment we get out of bed in the morning, we look for opportunities to make money. Unfortunately, the best opportunities are borne of people's deep-seated fears. We buy homes to shelter us from the weather; we buy insurance in case we die or have an accident with our cars; we buy ho... [ More ]

Comment #3

justxploring — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:44:55 GMT

(ps: Yes, Konane. We need to plant more trees! But we can't compete with those who are tearing them down in rainforests faster than I can type this comment.

Comment #2

konane — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:20:37 GMT

<br />Plant trees.

Comment #1

rcbbuckeye — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:27:11 GMT

It has turned into a money making operation, hasn't it? And, of course, a very "convenient" political football. The people crying about global warming seem to forget that the planet has had cooling cycles and warming cycles for eons. Then you have morons like John Edwards who jumped on the bandwagon and at the same time builds a gigantic house.

Original Blog Entry: You name it I'm sick of it

floridian — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:41:16 GMT

There has been reems of material written about global warming over the past few years but I do not see one thing that has been written about where the real heat is coming from.

It one wants to see the real story about global warming, one only has to follow the money that is being made trying to scare everyone into spending millions to combat an impossible situation.

Carbon offsets are the biggest joke of this new century.

Did you know, that the real heat producer is the earth itself. In any given moment the earth produces more that 31 terawatts of energy?

Did you know, as a comparison, that the United States produces about 0.3 terawatts of energy at any given moment?

Did you know that humans at rest produce 120 watts per hour and there are 6.68 billion of us on the planet?

Did you know that all the highways and bulidings on this planet reflect back tremendous amounts of heat?

Did you know that emerging countries produce much more heat than the U S ever thought about? I am speaking about countries like China which do not care about global warming just moving quickly into the 21st century by whatever means are available.

If we are really serious about doing something about global warming lets plug all the volcanos, reduce the population by 1/2, stop all further expansion of emerging countries and turn off all the air conditioners and other heat producing devices in this country and limit the use of automobiles to 10 miles a day per person.

Obviously, all that would meet with a lot of screaming and yelling and serious resistance.

The game we are playing is once again feel good politics and the pursuit of power and wealth at the expense of the already taxed to death poor.

No one has looked at anything other than their wallets.

By the way almost half of the heat produced by the earth comes from inside it. What should we do plug all the holes in the planet and stop the heat from escaping.

This effort to stop global warming is like disposing of one grain of sand on a beach. It will do nothing to counteract the problem or save the planet. However, it has the potential to make many more millionaires.

In conclusion, computers are huge heat producers with all kinds of them being used to propel the lottery. Anyone for shutting them down to reduce heat to the planet?

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