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Veteran Expediter
The other day I read about a village in Thailand or some other country over there (pointing to the west) that was being flooded by the ocean. The article talked about the poor people who had to flee their homes and the only building left standing was the temple. The article went into great detail about how the oceans are rising due to the ice melting, then described the rise as being 3.2 cm and the damage it has done so far. After the lengthy article, the last paragraph mentioned that the village is also bordered by a river which has had the dams changed to allow more flow and there has been extensive change to the landscape surrounding the village. 3.2 cm can’t flood the village, but the changes to the river and landscape can.
I read another article about the struggle for the UN to convince the US to get going on the carbon reduction program that they want the US to follow, reducing carbon output by 80% by 2020. I understand the ramifications of this type of target, essentially stopping out economy and reducing out standard of living to a point of living in caves. No way around the fact that 80% is a lot.
But a couple days later, I am reading that the UN climate experts have discovered that the temps didn’t rise as predicted over the past 10 years but now blame the numerous computer models on the predictions. Coupled with the fact that NASA also said the same thing and NASA also added to one news release that Antarctica’s ice has increased in the past few years.
Then I came across this article; The sun blotted out from the sky. It actually talks about an US-Irvine Physicist saying the same thing we were taught in university, the heating of the earth can be slowed down by putting dirt in the atmosphere. But more interesting is that he”has cooked up a plan that amounts to a manmade Mount Pinatubo eruption” which if you recalled Mount Pinatubo changed our world for a few years, lowering the temperature.
So this brings me to another point, Diesel emissions. Do we really need to have particle filters on diesels because of some study saying that there maybe a link between cancer and diesel? I don’t understand how that can really because if I recall, cities like Pittsburgh were so dirty even into the 60’s that you had to wipe the ash from the cars and the snow was gray. I don’t recall any mass deaths, do you. I think in order to save the earth from Global Warming, we must decide on our path, either ruin our way of life or to continue to allow particles to protect us.
I read another article about the struggle for the UN to convince the US to get going on the carbon reduction program that they want the US to follow, reducing carbon output by 80% by 2020. I understand the ramifications of this type of target, essentially stopping out economy and reducing out standard of living to a point of living in caves. No way around the fact that 80% is a lot.
But a couple days later, I am reading that the UN climate experts have discovered that the temps didn’t rise as predicted over the past 10 years but now blame the numerous computer models on the predictions. Coupled with the fact that NASA also said the same thing and NASA also added to one news release that Antarctica’s ice has increased in the past few years.
Then I came across this article; The sun blotted out from the sky. It actually talks about an US-Irvine Physicist saying the same thing we were taught in university, the heating of the earth can be slowed down by putting dirt in the atmosphere. But more interesting is that he”has cooked up a plan that amounts to a manmade Mount Pinatubo eruption” which if you recalled Mount Pinatubo changed our world for a few years, lowering the temperature.
So this brings me to another point, Diesel emissions. Do we really need to have particle filters on diesels because of some study saying that there maybe a link between cancer and diesel? I don’t understand how that can really because if I recall, cities like Pittsburgh were so dirty even into the 60’s that you had to wipe the ash from the cars and the snow was gray. I don’t recall any mass deaths, do you. I think in order to save the earth from Global Warming, we must decide on our path, either ruin our way of life or to continue to allow particles to protect us.
