Ugh, the global warming comments are getting to be so tiresome. Yes it''''s getting hotter, yeah sure ice-caps are melting...
There is nothing that can be done in a realistic timeframe to reverse the damage that has been done already [...]
All the global warming issues have done is create new ways for companies to market things to the every day consumer...slap a "We''''re Green!" lable on anything and it will be bought.
Posted by reusabletp at 06:48 PM : Aug 31, 2008
Interesting...I gather you hate people who say anything about global warming and favor protecting the environment - and thus our children?
I would point out that you may indeed be correct - too many decades of listening to people who deride the idea of taking care of the only planet humans have to live on may indeed have already pushed us past the tipping point.
The "Butterfly Effect", and all that...
On the other hand, if an arsonist uses gasoline to set your house on fire, do you just allow him to throw more gasoline on the fire while you stand there and tell your family "Oh, it is probably too late..."?
Or do you knock the S.O.B. down, and do what you can to save what is left?
Ugh, the global warming comments are getting to be so tiresome. Yes it''s getting hotter, yeah sure ice-caps are melting...
There is nothing that can be done in a realistic timeframe to reverse the damage that has been done already, wind energy could be built and equipped to power 20% of the nation by the year 2030...only 11 years away and only a fifth of OUR country, only 194 other countries to deal with. And all this would do is lower oil dependancy and water usage. It would''nt suck all the bad carbon up and put it in a rocket ship to be shot to the sun. Same can be said with the "hybrid" cars. All the global warming issues have done is create new ways for companies to market things to the every day consumer...slap a "We''re Green!" lable on anything and it will be bought.
We can''t build a giant air conditioned dome with a carbon filter around the planet to regulate temperature.
These poor people that are in the hurricane''s path are dealing with a natural occurence in nature, hurricanes have been around for a long time. These hurricanes didn''t start becomming active just because Al Gore released a documentary.
Not Again. Them poor people. Get Out Dears. Yer Mayor saids so on TV. I am hoping the bloody storm don''t hit and goes out to sea..''member they need help and America first.
THINK OF THIS. THE LEVEES WERE BUILT BUT NOT FINISHED. THE WATER WILL GO TO THE LEFT AND RIGHT OF THE LEVEES THUS CAUSING HORRIC FLOODING. IN OTHER WORDS THE LEVEES AT THIS POINT IN TIME WILL BE MEANINGLESS UNLESS THE WORK WAS FULLY COMPLETED AND WAS NOT.
Every major coastal city in the U.S. will eventually be underwater if nothing is done soon regarding global warming and the glaciers continue to melt at their current rate. Try having an intelligent discussion about that with these bloggers.
But I do agree with the point you''re making. The rebuilding should be focused well north of the coast and Lake Pontchaltrain.
I think people forget that the most damage sustained is in the east side of the storm - meaning Mississippi is the place where more destruction will be experienced. The levy breach occurred 3 days after Katrina had passed. In fact, remember that helicopters were flying through clear skies covering the levy breach and more helicopters were repairing it? That is evidence that the winds of Katrina were long gone. I was flying over Mississippi to see the damage over Biloxi, Bay St. Louis and Gulfport, and it was easy to see the scale of destruction that few were around to even report.
Most in New Orleans always knew that the west side of a hurricane isn''t too windy or damaging as the east side, and choose to stay, but the levy breach was what got them in trouble from three days of high water, not the hurricane. Mississippi coastline was 95% destroyed. The stench of flying over Mississippi coastal areas was over-powering. Volunteer rescue personnel often showed up, gasped for fresh air and abandoned the scene.
Katrina for New Orleans was purely a political memory, but for Mississippi, the scale of disaster from Katrina was beyond imagination. Few pay tribute to Mississippi for what they were given to overcome.
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There is nothing that can be done in a realistic timeframe to reverse the damage that has been done already [...]
All the global warming issues have done is create new ways for companies to market things to the every day consumer...slap a "We''''re Green!" lable on anything and it will be bought.
Posted by reusabletp at 06:48 PM : Aug 31, 2008
Interesting...I gather you hate people who say anything about global warming and favor protecting the environment - and thus our children?
I would point out that you may indeed be correct - too many decades of listening to people who deride the idea of taking care of the only planet humans have to live on may indeed have already pushed us past the tipping point.
The "Butterfly Effect", and all that...
On the other hand, if an arsonist uses gasoline to set your house on fire, do you just allow him to throw more gasoline on the fire while you stand there and tell your family "Oh, it is probably too late..."?
Or do you knock the S.O.B. down, and do what you can to save what is left?
There is nothing that can be done in a realistic timeframe to reverse the damage that has been done already, wind energy could be built and equipped to power 20% of the nation by the year 2030...only 11 years away and only a fifth of OUR country, only 194 other countries to deal with. And all this would do is lower oil dependancy and water usage. It would''nt suck all the bad carbon up and put it in a rocket ship to be shot to the sun. Same can be said with the "hybrid" cars. All the global warming issues have done is create new ways for companies to market things to the every day consumer...slap a "We''re Green!" lable on anything and it will be bought.
We can''t build a giant air conditioned dome with a carbon filter around the planet to regulate temperature.
These poor people that are in the hurricane''s path are dealing with a natural occurence in nature, hurricanes have been around for a long time. These hurricanes didn''t start becomming active just because Al Gore released a documentary.
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Posted by tpraskac at 05:39 PM : Aug 31, 2008
Six pack of Bud Light please! (I''ll get more when I run out about ten miles north!). (Mabye two or three miles in this traffic!).
Biden''s remark about Convenience store clerks was aimed at Pakastanis. Jindal is Indian.
Just as McCain doesn''t know the difference between Shiites & Sunnis, you don''t know the difference between Indians & Pakastanis.
Every major coastal city in the U.S. will eventually be underwater if nothing is done soon regarding global warming and the glaciers continue to melt at their current rate. Try having an intelligent discussion about that with these bloggers.
But I do agree with the point you''re making. The rebuilding should be focused well north of the coast and Lake Pontchaltrain.
Most in New Orleans always knew that the west side of a hurricane isn''t too windy or damaging as the east side, and choose to stay, but the levy breach was what got them in trouble from three days of high water, not the hurricane. Mississippi coastline was 95% destroyed. The stench of flying over Mississippi coastal areas was over-powering. Volunteer rescue personnel often showed up, gasped for fresh air and abandoned the scene.
Katrina for New Orleans was purely a political memory, but for Mississippi, the scale of disaster from Katrina was beyond imagination. Few pay tribute to Mississippi for what they were given to overcome.