Consensus on Global Warming?Follow

Only thing I've ever heard mentioned about windmills that's detrimental is the appearance, but it'd be a fun thing to look up.

You know it's funny, I read Smash' response to Gbaji, and that line: "OISM also markets a home-schooling kit for "parents concerned about socialism in the public schools" really struck a chord. As though I had read it before in a previous thread, as though this was all a re-hash from an old Asylum thread... Could it be?

Ta-da!



And guess who linked this the first time? None other than our favourite 6-figure-earning-okra-growing-basketball-playing-insurance-selling-racist friend, Varrus!!

So yeah, insightful new stuff...

edited to add: I finished that 2006 post with the phrase: "Come on man, even Gbaji is more challenging than this..."

Hehe, guess I was wrong.


Edited, May 21st 2008 9:17am by RedPhoenixxx

Meh, they can die. We'll just clone them using pig ovums at a later date.

As long as you aren't allergic to citrus.

This.

Wow. Newsmax? Really?

Yeah seriously. Even if "global warming" as a doomsday concept didn't exist, all of the debauchery leading up to it is still bad for us in general. For years we've been polluting our breathable air, drinkable water, and inhabitable land with the waste of our poor resource management practices. Even if global warming WAS a hoax, we've still got a boatload of other problems to deal with, not the least of which is our limited fossil fuel supply which, completely independent of other factors, could be the downfall of our civilization if we don't find a better than adequate solution, and sooner rather than later.

Wishing global warming was a myth doesn't solve any of the problems leading up to it. Being bad stewards of the planet is not generally good for our long-term prosperity on this chunk of rock floating in space.

Very tru, dat.

Although I'm betting we'll find replacement solutions for plastics at the last moment, when it becomes crucial. But I'm very very unhappy that we are just burning away most of a finite resource. I'm a bit worried about IV drips. Is silicone a workable replacement? Anything else?

However, I guess Belki might feel happier with one less global problem off her plate.

There were some private LANS (local area networks), there was a much larger network that was confined to major educational institutions, and one or more confined to Defense institutions. The internet as the USA knows it today didn't exist. Al Gore was a pivotal mover, if not the pivotal mover, in the government that got the bill written, sponsored and passed to allow anyone from the public access to the nationwide university computer network, AND to permit advertising and commercial activity on it. Prior to this bill, "The Internet" barely existed in the US, after this bill, it rapidly expanded and grew exponentially.

The phrase has a word wrong: it should be "he was responsible for", not "he invented the". If you want to be pedantic, it could be: "Al Gore was the man on the spot who was responsible for launching the Internet in it's present form."

First, he never claimed to have invented the Internet. The quotation was: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system." He was referring to helping create a legislative and regulatory environment that fostered the expansion and growth of the Internet.

He has been a supporter of the development of IT since the 1970s, especially during his time in Congress, though his most famous contribution was with the 1991 Gore Act.

I don't think he can be considered to have any responsibility for it (that takes away from the technical and organizational geniuses that truly are responsible for creating the Internet), but he was definitely a good friend to the movement.

Very true, and I agree with all of that. However, if global warming was a myth, then changing our ways would have an even bigger impact and it would prevent global warming from ever starting.

Wonderful! We've got a brick-ton of coal left, although the Chinese are burning merry hell through it.

Now the question is, if the government would please put the regulation in place for each type of plastic to be typed as xenohormonally active in humans and animals (an environmental endocrine disruptor), or not, so that we can ban manufacture and use of endocrine disruptors. After all, there's plenty of plastics that aren't endocrine disruptors.