global warming
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From: Oregon
I think global warming is real but it's just absurd to hear these "expert" environmetalists blame it on mankind or specifically on industries and automobiles. This earth has been through at least one ice age and I doubt the cavemen and dinosaurs had anything to do with global warming then.
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From: Damascus-Boring, Ore
It doesn't rain anywhere near as much here as you'd think, normally. Shhhhhhh. Other than the coastal region (we're 60-70 miles inland), we're quite a bit drier than the South and the East. Eastern Oregon and Washington are actually semi-desert.
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From: Other side of the sunrise
Before being too quick to judge if global warming is real or not, one should take the time to become fully educated. Not just react to their uninformed perception based "common sence" or propeganda. Personally though, I will not worry too much about gw as if it is a reality, my house will end up with palm trees (instead of pines) and beach front property. I'm up at 5700 feet elevation so the valleys will probably offer some great scuba diving (like finding the lost city of atlantis) after the polar caps melt off.
Who needs the Bahamas.
Who needs the Bahamas.
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From: London Canada
I am not sure if global warming is real or not but I certainly hope it is.....lol. Up here in Canada the winters are not nice but this year has been great in Ontario. Above freezing for the last couple of weeks and just starting to cool down now. I work outside alot in the winter so bring on the global warming.
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From: Kalispell, Mt.
Originally Posted by olfordsnstone
Before being too quick to judge if global warming is real or not, one should take the time to become fully educated. Not just react to their uninformed perception based "common sence" or propeganda.
I have to maintain that the earth is only going through another of it's cycles and will just continue to do so through the millenia...whether we are here or porpoises and whales..and/or Cockroaches.... dominate the world.
BUT!! Yes.. it's been a rainy nasty winter here too. I guess if we are to get some snow I have to do a couple things first. Shave my beard, cut my hair and SELL MY SNOWBLOWER! Perfect guarantee of 4 feet of snow and 30 below.
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From: Garner, NC
Global warming is a lot like the "everywhere" racism problem in America is. If it's proven tomorrow to be a big hoax (which it is), a few very vocal people out there will have to go out and get real jobs.
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From: Oregon
Hey fordsnstone, go fill up a glass with water, top it off with some ice cubes and see how much water overflows when the cubes melt... And as far as education, there are just as many global cooling stories out there as are global warming. You just don't hear too much about it on the nightly news.
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Okay okay, I should have expected that kind of response. I would probably have done the same. I have heard it all and don't really know what to think, but I am not going to take a stand either way and go running through the city yelling the sky is falling.....
I did however watch a special on Fox News, and Fox News is hardly a super liberal tree hugger channel. This documentary indicated that the polar caps are seeing changes in one persons life time that used to take a thousand years. YES GW is a natural phenominon, and has been occurring since the ice age. Natural states of change and cyclic events going on forever, but there is reported apparent evidence that it has been accellerated. Why, well who knows. But I am not one to judge what is and what isn't. I don't have the answers and would not claim to. That is for each of us to take personal responsibility to do, if we do in fact give a crap. Me, I'll take that beach front property.
I did however watch a special on Fox News, and Fox News is hardly a super liberal tree hugger channel. This documentary indicated that the polar caps are seeing changes in one persons life time that used to take a thousand years. YES GW is a natural phenominon, and has been occurring since the ice age. Natural states of change and cyclic events going on forever, but there is reported apparent evidence that it has been accellerated. Why, well who knows. But I am not one to judge what is and what isn't. I don't have the answers and would not claim to. That is for each of us to take personal responsibility to do, if we do in fact give a crap. Me, I'll take that beach front property.