*That's a real fungus and real, emerging health problem, and the damned thing wouldn't have turned up in Canada if Canada weren't becoming warm enough for the fungus to survive winters there.*
What did this fungus do when Canada was warmer in the 1930s and 1940s? So much of this is badly distorted, and anything at all that happens is due to Global Warming, no matter how thin the link between coincidence and causality.
Tell you what: catch the damned fungus, then you tell me if it's something to worry about or not. The ones who have the most data about this are the CDC. As I don't myself have a shingle on the wall, of course you're not going to pay attention to anything I've said. So please go to them.
But making a larger surface area of the Earth more productive isn't all that bad, is it? We seem to be returning to that state from a century ago, although it's not likely to last. At least, with the CO2 increase, plants are growing much better--and that feeds all of us, temperature change or no.Guess what? More and more of the
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Global warming and pollution are two completely different issues in my mind. One of the most disappointing aspects of the current ecological craze is to conflate the two, then diffuse the efforts to deal with the real problems.
They're intimately tied together. The real problem is that way too many people, including you, cannot separate the issue of pollution in any form from that of government control in their minds. To reject both ideas together is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Many conservatives I know absolutely reject the idea that storm surges are becoming more and more powerful and that high-tides lines are advancing even though some of those conservatives are already complaining about those things because property they own is being damaged by them, which says volumes about the human capcity to lie to onself and everyone else, doesn't it? They do that because they don't want to be seen to support the Left -- and because they, like most Americans any more, are giant pussies who talk getting rid of the Left, but
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Many conservatives I know absolutely reject the idea that storm surges are becoming more and more powerful
What's a storm surge, in this context? If you mean hurricanes, or total accumulated cyclonic energy, those have been declining; they operate on an approximately 40 year cycle and have for more than 300 years.
There are chance blips--for example in 2000 and 2001, right at the peak of the hurricane cycle, no hurricanes at all made US landfall. That "fortunate" chance made more people complacent.
*Many conservatives I know absolutely reject the idea that storm surges are becoming more and more powerful*
What's a storm surge, in this context? If you mean hurricanes, or total accumulated cyclonic energy, those have been declining; they operate on an approximately 40 year cycle and have for more than 300 years.
In this case, it refers to Pacific storms of the sort that crash against cliff walls along the coasts of Oregon, California, Washington State, British Columbia, and Alaska. Pacific storms are intense, and their cycles are determined by El Nino/La Nina events along with the interveing periods when neither operates. West Coast storms can be like typhoons, though not as violent as the ones that often rage in the western Pacific. The measure of the power and height of these storms has to do with the cliff faces I knew intimately when I lived in Santa Barbara, California, 1968-1987. The cliffs overlook Goleta Beach. When I first moved there, in 1968, the storm-surge line on the cliff faces, where the tops of the storm-
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What did this fungus do when Canada was warmer in the 1930s and 1940s? So much of this is badly distorted, and anything at all that happens is due to Global Warming, no matter how thin the link between coincidence and causality.
Tell you what: catch the damned fungus, then you tell me if it's something to worry about or not. The ones who have the most data about this are the CDC. As I don't myself have a shingle on the wall, of course you're not going to pay attention to anything I've said. So please go to them.
But making a larger surface area of the Earth more productive isn't all that bad, is it? We seem to be returning to that state from a century ago, although it's not likely to last. At least, with the CO2 increase, plants are growing much better--and that feeds all of us, temperature change or no.Guess what? More and more of the ( ... )
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They're intimately tied together. The real problem is that way too many people, including you, cannot separate the issue of pollution in any form from that of government control in their minds. To reject both ideas together is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Many conservatives I know absolutely reject the idea that storm surges are becoming more and more powerful and that high-tides lines are advancing even though some of those conservatives are already complaining about those things because property they own is being damaged by them, which says volumes about the human capcity to lie to onself and everyone else, doesn't it? They do that because they don't want to be seen to support the Left -- and because they, like most Americans any more, are giant pussies who talk getting rid of the Left, but ( ... )
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What's a storm surge, in this context? If you mean hurricanes, or total accumulated cyclonic energy, those have been declining; they operate on an approximately 40 year cycle and have for more than 300 years.
There are chance blips--for example in 2000 and 2001, right at the peak of the hurricane cycle, no hurricanes at all made US landfall. That "fortunate" chance made more people complacent.
But what do you mean by "storm surge"?
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What's a storm surge, in this context? If you mean hurricanes, or total accumulated cyclonic energy, those have been declining; they operate on an approximately 40 year cycle and have for more than 300 years.
In this case, it refers to Pacific storms of the sort that crash against cliff walls along the coasts of Oregon, California, Washington State, British Columbia, and Alaska. Pacific storms are intense, and their cycles are determined by El Nino/La Nina events along with the interveing periods when neither operates. West Coast storms can be like typhoons, though not as violent as the ones that often rage in the western Pacific. The measure of the power and height of these storms has to do with the cliff faces I knew intimately when I lived in Santa Barbara, California, 1968-1987. The cliffs overlook Goleta Beach. When I first moved there, in 1968, the storm-surge line on the cliff faces, where the tops of the storm- ( ... )
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