Poison Oak and Global Warming

[curly]

As I recall, back then we only had trucks and tractors. It was the onset of cars that beset us with wussiness.

Maybe 'Global Wussiness'

 

[dbdartman]

George, you're my hero!

After all the typing you did, I think I can sum it up in four words: Advertising disguised as fact (science).

 

[AMP762]

What was it PT Barnum said?

 

[coffeeman]

I'm still trying to figure out how the other planets in our solar system are warming up, along with the earth.

Is this true? I never heard that.

On global warming benifit? Everyone has air conditioning in their cars. I wonder how many arms are saved because cars have air? Remember the old days of hanging the arm out the window in summer. Every so often we would hear of someone side swiping another car and someones arm would get crushed.

As many mentioned, most changes have good and bad associated with the change.

Cheers...Coffeeman

 

[IH3444]

I for one am going to be looking for those bigger, and juicer apples in 2050, as per the predictions of those global warming computer models, that also can't get right two years in a row hurricane predictions........If the news media concentrated on the deaths caused by automobiles each day, most would be frighten out of using their automobiles. If the United States goverment was truely concerned about deaths in America, and what is a threat to all our health, they would ban cigarettes. What they have been looking for is another way to siphon off more tax dollars from each of us, to spend as they see fit. Global warming fits this bill to a "T".

 

[jinman]

Now let's take it a step further, because I know you guys aren't like the average maroon on the street and might appreciate a few observations.

I've been called a moron, but never a "maroon." Is that an embarrassed moron?

I work at one of the largest airports in the USA. Airplanes take off and land there constantly. Tons and tons of jet fuel are burned each hour of the day there. There must be CO2 and CO out the wahzoo at that place. Even so, I have never seen poison ivy or poison oak growin' on that airport. As a matter of fact, not much of it grows in the polluted surburbia around the airport. You don't suppose they have some way of collecting it and sending it somewhere else do you? Nah...they wouldn't do that would they?

And then, I drive to my house in the country over 70 miles away. The "stuff" is everywhere. I can drive down my driveway to the lake and it is so thick under the trees that I could point out thousands of vines. I sure wish Duke University would come here and tell me where all the CO2 is coming from to cause my PI to grow. I know I'm in the approach pattern to DFW airport. Do you suppose those planes flying overhead could be dumping CO2 on me before they get to the airport? After all, we're just simple cournty folk out here and probably wouldn't notice such things.

Who knows, maybe the CO2 is coming from the injection wells and diffusing up through layers of soil. That's gotta be it. the airplanes and the injection well guys are makin' my PI grow. I gotta get out of here, I'm movin' to the airport...

 

[IH3444]

True cause of global warming discovered......

 

[N80]

If the United States goverment was truely concerned about deaths in America, and what is a threat to all our health, they would ban cigarettes.

The ironic thing is that Duke University (who did the poison ivy study) was established by the Duke family, which was one of the tobacco ycoon families. Kind of odd that we didn't get a report on how big, juicy and nicotine laden the tobacco will be in 2050.

 

[N80]

I've been called a moron, but never a "maroon." Is that an embarrassed moron?

You clearly are not a student of the Three Stooges, Grasshopper.

 

[EddieWalker]

Looks like the scientists who do all the predicting forgot to include the ocean currents in their predictions. In fact, it just came out that a massive ocean current off of Australia was just discovered!!! They are plugging a very limited amount of information into their models, and comeing up with garbage results. They have tried to put the same information into the computer for dates that go back several decades to see if they can get accurate readings of the weather that actually happened, and it's failed every time. How a 100% failure at recreating past weather readings gives them any credibility at predicting future weather or global warming trends is probably the real story in the media's hype to create this farce.

Did anybody catch the story that it was only 54 percent of the scientist in the UN report said that globabl warming might be happening? Not quite the overwhelming support Al Gore is quoting in his argument for this.

Eddie