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Benny · 15-05-2007, 18:06

I said it was my last but I can't let that pass without comment - That is an incredible statement given most of your posts - everyone check out Capct posts from the start and determine for yourself who is unable to digest information and who is interested in a good argument.

Alan - good post - the pollution problem is insidious and cleaning up our attitudes and own back yards is the right way to start the process.

delmarrey · 15-05-2007, 18:22

Thank goodness for global warming. It's finally staying above 50 degrees F at night as of Saturday night. I can finally start doing some epoxy work.

Even the fruit trees are loving it. The blossoms didn't get froze off this year and the asian pear has hundreds of fruits as well as the blueberries and apples. The dams are backed up full of water and there's still lots of snow on the peaks.

Yep! This is going to be a fruitful summer!

CaptainK · 15-05-2007, 18:41

At least this article is saying that the automakers are trying to make a better fuel efficent engine.

Check out this article.

LiveScience.com: Futuristic Engine Uses Much Less Fuel

NoTies · 15-05-2007, 19:06

You believe a BBC documentary????? Historically the British media is censored and controlled by the government. Hell, in the Falklands war they even prevented their radio stations playing certain songs as it was deemed against the national interest.
It always makes me giggle when rednecks refer to anyone who is environmentally concious as lefties(McCarthyism, pinko, commie??). I'm far from being a lefty and do not support our current regime in NZ. I guess I am intelligent though so it may seem to the unenlightened to equate the same thing. In NZ we're lucky enough to be able to be an environmentalist & go out hunting animals as they are mostly noxious pests. Some of our greatest environmentally aware people are gun toting good ol boys.

dana-tenacity · 15-05-2007, 19:15

I would trust the BBC over fox news any day

CaptainK · 15-05-2007, 19:16

pwederell.

I never said that "I" believed in that article.

All I said. Was that it seems that they are trying to make a better Fuel efficient engine.

P.S. This site does not list the 3 letter's BBC on it.

That is all.

NoTies · 15-05-2007, 19:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by dana-tenacity

I would trust the BBC over fox news any day

Too true, I was subjected to this joke of a news channel (with no alternative) for a couple of years.

NoTies · 15-05-2007, 20:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by CaptainK

pwederell.

I never said that "I" believed in that article.

All I said. Was that it seems that they are trying to make a better Fuel efficient engine.

P.S. This site does not list the 3 letter's BBC on it.

That is all.

That's cool, I was actually having a crack at Captct (sinkpotter). "It was on TV so it must be true!!!"

CaptainK · 15-05-2007, 20:04

Oh yeah!!

Yeah!! He is one of the few sink pot owners on this forum.

That....I can agree with you on!! :cubalibre

**Ex-Calif** · 15-05-2007, 21:50

"Alan - good post - the pollution problem is insidious and cleaning up our attitudes and own back yards is the right way to start the process."

At last something we should all be able to agree upon. Making as small a footprint as possible has to be a good thing.

I remember as a kid growing up in teh LA basin. During the summer we could hardly see across a football field. Today the air quality is measuably and visibly better. We are paying for it through the regulations on auto emissions being much more stringent.

As far as climate change - The climates changing. Whoo-hoo!

Let's not throw out the baby (or aircon) with the bath water.

Let's just try to spend more time under sails...

TaoJones · 15-05-2007, 22:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by delmarrey

Thank goodness for global warming. It's finally staying above 50 degrees C at night as of Saturday night. I can finally start doing some epoxy work.

Even the fruit trees are loving it. The blossoms didn't get froze off this year and the asian pear has hundreds of fruits as well as the blueberries and apples. The dams are backed up full of water and there's still lots of snow on the peaks.

Yep! This is going to be a fruitful summer!

When it does finally reach 50 degrees Celsius in the Puget Sound area, I'm sure you will be singing a different tune regarding global warming. Fifty degrees Celsius equals 122 degrees Fahrenheit!

TaoJones

delmarrey · 16-05-2007, 00:42

TaoJones,
You sure must like me

You're the one who responds to most of my posts, with all those little mistakes I make. I sure wish you could be my Daddy. I could really get my act together

with a Daddy like you, NOT!

Picking on me doesn't bother me, so go right ahead. I just consider the source!

Your Buddy................._/)

BTW I can correct my posts

44'cruisingcat · 16-05-2007, 01:04

Just a question - we are being told that when the polar ice caps melt half the world is going to be flooded, but when you melt ice it actually contracts doesn't it? And a great deal of the ice is actually under water isn't it? (North Pole in particular) So won't sea levels actually fall instead of rising?

Hey Del, you can correct other people's posts too!

NoTies · 16-05-2007, 01:28

They're talking about the Antarctic and Greenland iceshelves which are mostly on land so yes, the sea levels will rise. One of the smaller sections of floating iceshelf (Larsen B) collapsed a few years ago but as it was floating it had no effect on sea levels.