Moyers latest episode on climate change

[bobabode]

Anyone else see this? A Yalie psychologist was expounding on how the subject of climate change might be a good entre` back into relevance for the Republican party. He even cited scripture about how it was a christian virtue to care for the good earth.;)

[merrylander]

No both local PBS stations are having pledge month, at least it seems like a month. I really cannot undertstand the mentality that replaces the very program we want with someone like that snake oil saleslady Suze Orman and expects me to watch her and send in money. We are already sustaining members (who do you think gave them that idea) so we just stick a DVD in.

[Oerets]

I had to DVR it due to the drive so was being aired at 0200 this morning.


My sister the TP supporter Rush listener, sent me a picture of the first real snow we have had all year. Not even a 1/2" but somehow the snow disproves global warming. Not the fact it was in the hi 60's* in January and February. So the GOP can't all of a sudden jump on the global warming bandwagon. Their supporters and neither the oil, gas and coal industries will not let them.




Barney

[icenine]

Keep the masses worried about the "debt crisis" while the Artic Circle is melting and a fabled myth from the 16th Century (The Northwest Passage) is now a 21st Century reality.

Isn't strange how even though it is becoming a minority party the GOP still commands the media attention. The media is determining what the truth is, whether it is true or not.

[piece-itpete]

If the causes of climate change are man made we're screwed anyway.

Have a nice day :D

Pete

[bobabode]

If the causes of climate change are man made we're screwed anyway.

Have a nice day :D

Pete

Sorry for taking so long to reply, Pete. I was getting ready for fire season. You know, the one that comes after spring around here? Jim Morrison talked about it way back when in his song, L.A. Woman. "Hills are filled with fire."
Yeh, that seems to be happening more and more these days. The brush grows up around people's houses and the lazy ones don't cut it down and voila! Summer comes and that crap dries to tinder and a stray spark sets it off. Before you know it a freakin' firestorm is burning up hundreds of homes and every firefighter west of the Mississipi descends on our area to put it out.

With the western bark beetle infestations goin' on from Colorado to the Pacific Ocean we are having a grand old time, cutting down the pine trees that are dying at an alarming rate. If only my pissant gas fireplace could burn the logs... Now, the Air Quality Management District is trying to outlaw burning wood in the fire rings we have at the beach around here. Oh well. I'm sure you're wondering when spring is coming to Ohio. I hope you don't get too many tornadoes.:eek:

Back on topic, when Lake Erie floods the Cuyahoga into your back yard? Think back and curse me for being right. Cheers.:rolleyes:

[merrylander]

Whoa Bob, you don't ever want to burn pine logs in a fireplacce. We cut down 23 black pines that were dieseased and I did not even consider making firewood from them.

[BlueStreak]

Whoa Bob, you don't ever want to burn pine logs in a fireplacce. We cut down 23 black pines that were dieseased and I did not even consider making firewood from them.

And the pitch lines the walls of your chimney and creates a runaway fire hazard.
Who doesn't know that?

Dave

[piece-itpete]

Midwestern Californians? Sorry Bob I couldn't resist :D

My yard generates a lot of Silver Maple. Awesome outdoor fire wood, once thoroughly cured it burns hot, lots of color, pops and crackles a lot. My bro-in-law wanted some for his house, I told him not to but he insisted. Burnt his new carpet :rolleyes:

Bob I'm high enough. I don't have to worry about flooding. Besides (everyone groans) we can't stop it anyway.

Pete

[merrylander]

We are 400 feet above sea level and 70 feet above the 100 year flood plain, what me worry?

[piece-itpete]

If we're lucky Rob the new water level will come to the edge of our property :D

Wait, can I joke about that? :eek:

Pete

[bobabode]

Midwestern Californians? Sorry Bob I couldn't resist :D

My yard generates a lot of Silver Maple. Awesome outdoor fire wood, once thoroughly cured it burns hot, lots of color, pops and crackles a lot. My bro-in-law wanted some for his house, I told him not to but he insisted. Burnt his new carpet :rolleyes:

Bob I'm high enough. I don't have to worry about flooding. Besides (everyone groans) we can't stop it anyway.

Pete

We are 400 feet above sea level and 70 feet above the 100 year flood plain, what me worry?


I hear ya, fellas. That cheesy natural gas fireplace hasn't been turned on in years, much less with anything flammable in it. My firewood is made of concrete. That doesn't stop a few knuckleheads around here from burning those parrafin and sawdust logs in theirs.:eek: Creosote lining your flue ain't got nuthin on a good coating of parafin...
Maybe I outta pipe down about climate change? After all, I'm only 66 ft. above sea level. I'll be selling my beachfront property soon enough to those refugees from Newport Beach. Sure gives a new twist to being underwater on your mortgage, eh?:rolleyes:

[piece-itpete]

In order to stop what some boffins say is coming, we need to lower our CO2 output appreciably and even that might not work. Failed Kyoto couldn't even slow just the increase in generation.

Don't move to lower ground me mateys ;)

Pete

[ebacon]

Heat island is a much bigger effect than CO2 IMO. Pilots can feel heat islands when they fly over, that's how hot they are.

Not every drugstore needs a black asphalt parking lot that's the size of a football field. Ridiculous.

[Charles]

If the causes of climate change are man made we're screwed anyway.

Have a nice day :D

Pete

Sustainable living/climate change/latest Chicken Little/bullshit.

The Earth will make the decision whenever it's had enough.

As has been pointed out it the Show Me State, in particular amongst those who live along the Missouri River, " The river owns the first deed."

Chas