Climate Change

[Matts]

So that was an interesting speech, but I'm not sure I watched the same speech?
The points I took from that speech were:
1. Climate change is real, terrible, and we need to do something about it.
2. England has much less effect on climate change than high CO2 emitting countries like China and India, so by the same criteria, I would assume the US.
3. We must address an at least equally tragic crisis of world poverty if we want to get the whole world on board to stopping climate change, so a call against nationalism and in favor of glabalism?
4. Science and technology, given the resources and opportunity, can get us out of the climate change crisis, which is another way of saying ban gas guzzlers and gas stoves and keep working on alternate green sources.
5. The truth and reality matter more than feelings when addressing a world crisis, so being against global warming because it upsets the libs can't be the answer?

 

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Assinine is what it was!

1000+ private jets flew to Davos just so a privileged few can feel better about themselves!

How can any conference with Al Gore as a speaker have a speck of credibility?

 

[dsedy]

ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

 

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ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

 

[jpd]

 

[wader]

In the West, pressure to count water lost to evaporation

Exposed to the beating sun and hot dry air, more than 10% of the water carried by the Colorado River evaporates, leaks or spills as the 1,450-mile (2,334-kilometer) powerhouse of the West flows through the region’s dams, reservoirs and open-air canals. For decades, key stewards of the river...

www.yahoo.com

 

[Matts]

If that neighbor down the hall with the man bun you really hate bangs on your door in the middle of the night and yells that his apartment is on fire and everyone needs to leave the building, refusing to get out of bed to really stick it to him is probably not the right move, but that's just me.

Too subtle?

 

[Matts]

In the West, pressure to count water lost to evaporation

Exposed to the beating sun and hot dry air, more than 10% of the water carried by the Colorado River evaporates, leaks or spills as the 1,450-mile (2,334-kilometer) powerhouse of the West flows through the region’s dams, reservoirs and open-air canals. For decades, key stewards of the river...

www.yahoo.com

Just got back from Colorado where I saw a TV show explaining that if things keep the way they are, the water level will get so low that it will not flow past Hover Dam as currently constructed and then the sh*t will really hit the fan in a lot of different ways.

 

[movetheboat]

if we can run pipelines for oil why not water from the great lakes....water is also a commodity just not as valuable. We are lucky in this country to have a vast supply of fresh water...just locations are the problem

 

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water is also a commodity just not as valuable

Water, like natural gas and electricity, is cheap.

Then come the delivery charges..................and taxes.........................and anything else a municipality can tag on to pay for......

wait for it

Undocumented immigrants to stay in hotels indefinately!

 

[movetheboat]

Water, like natural gas and electricity, is cheap.

Then come the delivery charges..................and taxes.........................and anything else a municipality can tag on to pay for......

wait for it

Undocumented immigrants to stay in hotels indefinately!

we had a 30% increase in water from our municipality this year

We need to expedite the legal requests to immigrate to the USA in order to vet them properly. People are fleeing Central America due to poverty and crime. Most want to work and raise a family in peace, some will be criminals just like in all the other immigrant groups that entered the USA over the decades. The word goes back that there are jobs going begging right now in this country and that is a huge incentive. Our service sector is in collapse due to lack of workers . That being said the system right now is broken

 

[Hunter704]

Watching the news I just can't believe that they can stand there and protest, they really should bring in the national guard round them all up and send them back where they came from, to stand there in a interview on tv and say we should take money from the police department and other places to fund them is crazy.

 

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we had a 30% increase in water from our municipality this year

We need to expedite the legal requests to immigrate to the USA in order to vet them properly. People are fleeing Central America due to poverty and crime. Most want to work and raise a family in peace, some will be criminals just like in all the other immigrant groups that entered the USA over the decades. The word goes back that there are jobs going begging right now in this country and that is a huge incentive. Our service sector is in collapse due to lack of workers . That being said the system right now is broken

Ironic that Americans are fleeing their own cities here for the same reasons..... poverty and crime.


"Charity starts at home "

 

[wader]

Israel refills the Sea of Galilee, supplying Jordan on the way

STORY: Israel is saving its main freshwater reservoir from the effects of climate changeThe Sea of Galilee was being lost to droughtsSo Israel built a chain of desalination plants along its Meditteranean coast They turn seawater into freshwater, to refill the lake when water levels get low(Yoav...

www.yahoo.com

 

[movetheboat]

Ironic that Americans are fleeing their own cities here for the same reasons..... poverty and crime.


"Charity starts at home "

that has been the case forever..the cities have always been populated by the immigrants/MINORITIES who then do better and move to the suburbs hopefully. The U.S. foreign policy toward central and south America for decades has destabilized the entire continent helping to create the chit show we have today. If I was born there I would been on that caravan too.

 

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that has been the case forever..the cities have always been populated by the immigrants/MINORITIES who then do better and move to the suburbs hopefully. The U.S. foreign policy toward central and south America for decades has destabilized the entire continent helping to create the chit show we have today. If I was born there I would been on that caravan too.

Let's not confuse LEGAL immigrants with undocumented ones. I'm all for LEGAL immigration.

 

[Matts]

to paraphrase Yogi, the demand for housing in NYC is so high, that no one lives there anymore!

 

[wader]

Parts of US see earliest spring conditions on record: ‘Climate change playing out in real time’

Parts of Texas, Arkansas, Ohio and Maryland, along with New York, are all recording their earliest spring conditions on record

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Parts of US see earliest spring conditions on record: ‘Climate change playing out in real time’​

Blooming daffodils in New York City. Leaves sprouting from red maples in North Carolina. Cherry blossoms about to bud in Washington. Record winter warmth across much of the eastern US has caused spring-like conditions to arrive earlier than ever previously recorded in several places, provoking delight over the mild weather and despair over the unfolding climate crisis.

In New York, one of several US cities to experience its warmest January on record, spring conditions have arrived 32 days before the long-term normal, which is its earliest onset of biological spring in 40 years of charting seasonal trends by the National Phenology Network.

Spring activity has, meanwhile, arrived at least 20 days earlier than usual for huge swathes of the US south-east and east, with parts of central Texas, south-east Arkansas, southern Ohio and Maryland, along with New York, all recording their earliest spring conditions on record so far this year.

 

[CELLFISH]

in a way it could be dangerous.. if fruit trees start to bloom and a hard freeze follows those buds will be killed.. i’m not sure if the trees could regenerate new blossom… i saw it once in vermont some years ago… cellfish…

 

[Roccus7]

in a way it could be dangerous.. if fruit trees start to bloom and a hard freeze follows those buds will be killed.. i’m not sure if the trees could regenerate new blossom… i saw it once in vermont some years ago… cellfish…

True enough and it's very unlikely they can rebud in a single season...

Maple Syrup producers already concerned as this "on again, off again" run of sap is going to negatively impact their output this year...