Wild flowersPosted By John Agnew |
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Wild flowersPosted By John Agnew |
EarthquakePosted By John Agnew |
Andreas Saldivar said:
Anyone else feel the Earthquake? That was about as big as you get in the Mid-Atlantic. At my work it shook for about 15 seconds. It was classic too. We first felt the the compression waves, which shook mildly. Then there was about a 1 second lull before the more violent sine waves came. Since there appears to be no damage, I'm thinking it was pretty neat.
Andreas
Troops Burn Houses, Kill Child In Name of Global WPosted By John Agnew |
The most hated person of GW environmentalists -Posted By John Agnew |
Russ Carroll said:
is not George Bush or Sarah Palin, or even Michael Crichton. It may well be environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg. Ironically, Dr. Lomborg, a former greenpeace activist, does not deny the existence of man-made environmental warming of the globe, but insists that the impact that it is and probably will have are being greatly exaggerated by fear-mongers with agenda's.
Further, he claims that the hysteria surrounding the debate has push nearly all useful funding to address the problem off to the side, with incredibly expensive and basically useless initiatives, like the Kyoto accord and Cap and Trade, undermining worldwide efforts to improve living conditions around the globe.
I just watched his 2010 documentary called "Cool It" and was pretty surprised at not only his assertions, but the consensus assessment of scientists as to the actual impact of climate change as viewed by the IPCC.
A scientist at Princeton's IAS summed up my personal frustration with this issue - that science has been hijacked by alarmists and catastrophizers surrounding the issue and bad policy is the result.
I encourage anyone here to seek out this film and watch it for yourself. It seems persuasive and is at a minimum thought-provoking.