Poison Oak and Global Warming

[IH3444]

The Wrong Fire

 

[dmccarty]

That was interesting.

Some years ago there was an article in Car and Driver about car emissions and CA. CA was going to pass and I'm sure did pass strict emission requirements that would have cost quite a bit of money. But if one looked at which cars drove the pollution, pun intended, it was the old cars on the road. Not new ones. It would have been cheaper to pay the owners of the older cars from 70s to junk 'em and buy newer used/new cars to lower emissions.

Later,
Dan

 

[RedRocker]

Originally Posted by Skyco
So you mean the 150 years ago where the average male died at what? Something like 45-50 years old...no thanks I'll take the medical system we have now.





Nowhere did I equate the medical system with the insurance system

You had me fooled, 1969 is talking about insurance and you're talking about the medical system..."I'll take the medical system we have now". Me too, but I think we'd be better off with the Feds out of the medical business.

 

[Spiveyman]

I know it has absolutely nothing to do with GW, but I just took a strole through some woods on my farm. I have a very mature forest back there, White Oaks 3' wide, and a full carpet of poison ivy. I walked about 10 acres into the woods, solid ivy from one side to the other. Kind of freaky, it's never been like that before... (I need a sound effect here to make it eerie)

 

[The Haymaker]

"I think it's more of a blame somebody, anybody, mentality then anything else. People get a rash from poisong oak, so they look for somebody else to blame for it besides themselves."

Thus the reason I call it the "global warming religion". I see amazing similarities!

 

[RobertBrown]

Did anyone hear or read the report that the poison oak and poison ivy crop was more lush this year due to global warming? I did not see the report but had several people mention it to me. They thought it was idiotic....which I did also. We had a good laugh and I didn't think about it for a while.

Then, I had several people come into my office with contact dermatitis typical of posion oak or ivy. They'd been exposed to it in their yards. Each one of these folks mentioned that they felt like global warming was the reason they had gotten poison oak. Each time I waited for a smile or punch line, but there was none. These were educated middle class people and to them it made perfect sense that global warming (which they obviosly felt to be as real as gravity) was responsible for the excess poison oak the resulted in their rash.


I'm not really here to debate posion ivy growth either. My point is that the American public is as gullible and suggestable as any marketing department could want them to be. Put it on the radio, the TV or the internet and they'll buy. It is just staggering to me how serious these patients were. They've heard about global warming on TV....so it must be true. Then they heard on TV that the global warming was making poison oak grow more...so it must be true. It is just a small mental leap to go from those two points of info to realize how bad global warming already was in their own back yards and itchy hides. Unfortunately that small mental leap was the only mental exercise they are willing to bring to the table.

How can this nation remain great when its middle class (and I consider myself one of them...middle class that is) is so stupid and soft? It makes me want to sob. Seriously.

(For a point of reference, when I say middle class I'm not necessarily talking about household income. I'm talking about those of us considerably above the poverty line with decent incomes and educations but who are not amongst the very wealthy or powerful.)

I've heard absolutley nothing of this.
A "few people" come into your office with a rash and say "global warming" and now you are making assertions about the nation's middle class?
Your a genius and everybody else is an idiot!
Congratualtions!
Feel better?

 

[Taylortractornut]

Its like my bumper sticker on my dump truck. Stop global whining. I used to read Mother earth News magazine and buy back issues for articles. Every one ive seen lately has global whining about global warming. Every other article blames global warming for every thing.