Voices from the other side...

[oxbastetxo]

S pointed this out to me the other day.

Everyone keeps screaming gloom and doom about global warming...here's from the other side...

"Cold Reception

Tuesday we told you about several areas around the planet experiencing record cold and snowpack — in the face of all the predictions of global warming.

Now there is word that all four major global temperature tracking outlets have released data showing that temperatures have dropped significantly over the last year. California meteorologist Anthony Watts says the amount of cooling ranges from 65-hundredths of a degree Centigrade to 75-hundreds of a degree.

That is said to be a value large enough to erase nearly all the global warming recorded over the past 100 years. It is reportedly the single fastest temperature change ever recorded — up or down.

Some scientists contend the cooling is the result of reduced solar activity — which they say is a larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases."
 

From:http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,333328,00.html

Here's another interesting article on it.....from Newsweek from 1975!

http://www.denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm

*sigh*

We're still here, dispite all this. ;-)

Comments

[ladybeth.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who believes that in 30 years, Global warming will cause the earth to stop moving and we will all be flung to our deaths because of a lack of gravity and th fact we stopped moving.

[oxbastetxo.livejournal.com]

Whoops! We better invest in seat belts. ;-)

[ladybeth.livejournal.com]

Yep.

To be fair, it was 2 in the morning and everyone was on a sugar high (It was the christmas party). But he also kept arguing with a friend over how many people could actually transfer to another planet in time to survive this castostrophic event.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Whatever. The climate is changing. I refer you to this map (http://www.climatehotmap.org/) and note the Northwest passage is open in this one from The Christian Science Monitor (http://www.climatehotmap.org/).

The reduction of hydrocarbons, making sure our watersheds are clean and we aren't draining our aquafers too fast, increasing diverse biomass (as in plant a lot of different trees) and reducing industrial toxins can only be of the good.

Maybe I'm funny. I like breathing clean air full of oxygen. I like drinking water that isn't full of sulphur or iron or lead or mercury. And I want my kids to have the same thing.

I understand that if one is sitting around waiting for the world to end, there's no good reason to worry about it.

Those of us who aren't, who actually think we have a stake in the future are just shaking our heads as the foot soldiers of the Right repeat talking points from industrialists who don't want to let go of a penny of profit to keep their world habitable.

[oxbastetxo.livejournal.com]

I'm not arguing that things need to be cleaned up and I'm all for alternative energy. Our house is heated and cooled by a geothermal heat pump system that uses ground water in a close loop system that returns all the water back into the ground. Ground water is a constant 56 degrees. The heat is extracted from the difference between that and ambient air in the winter and it is used to cool the air in the summer. It is a very efficient and cost effective and environmentally friendly system.

And actually...most sulfur contamination in water supplies comes from geothermal coal producing areas and is natural to that area. A lot of the wells around our neck of the woods have sulfur, but that's just the ground formation, not pollution. Iron is the same issue. I live right in the middle of an iron ore deposits and our sinks turn orange if we don't treat the water. That's not from contamination. They quarried iron ore out from the field across from our property a hundred years ago or so. We're a natural lightening rod because of it.

I don't like being accused of being a Nazi every time I poke a finger in the direction of the Left.

Geez! Since when is it again the law NOT to agree?

It's not like I'm demanding that you have to think the same way as me.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

If it's in my water and I don't want it there, it's contamination, whether natural or man-made.

The point is, look at who is saying there is no global warming. Check the facts. And follow the money. Who profits by mocking the scientific community and disregarding evidence?

As for disagreeing, sure. Over unimportant things.
But over big things, like the notion that queer pagan women are as deserving of basic human rights as straight Christian men or things that affect the whole prospect of my children's future?
No. Those are non-negotiable.

[oxbastetxo.livejournal.com]

Also look at where you are.

This is MY LJ. I can post my opinions and should be able to post them without worry of having to defend my right to have my own opinion. Just as you have on YOUR LJ.

IF you have something in your water you don't want there, buy a filter don't blaim God for creating it, the H2O cycle for sending it around or the water table for holding it. That pretty much goes for life. If you don't like either change it, ignore it or leave it alone.

Good Lord! You took my simple post of, Hey, Look! Somebody is saying the opposite this weeks of what they were saying last week! And an article I found amusing as "Oh, doom and gloom we'll freeze!" as opposed "Oh, doom and gloom we'll burn up!"

*sigh*

[oxbastetxo.livejournal.com]

Also, with water...not a good subject to debate with me. I'll drowned you..literally with statistics. My Dad was a Water Well Driller and I've grown up with literature from the National Ground Water Association as common reading in our bathroom. Both of my parents and one brother were all certified by the state in and/or Water Well Drilling, Water Treatment and Purification, Water Pump Instillation and Geothermal Heat Pump Instillation.

I can pretty much explain how to drill a well, get the water out of it into your house and most every chemical and piece of equipment needed to make it potable in either a residential or municipal situation. :-)

[ancientcitadel.livejournal.com]

Wow, wouldn't know it from where I am. We've got four days of 40+°C. The Bureau of Meteorology say that Melbourne had not endured four straight days over 40°C since 1908 and that at this stage it's the second driest January in 150 years. I'm so glad we got the aircon installed a couple of weeks back.