Good morning,
When I looked out back, which is basically looking North North West, it was quite cloudy, I'm talking very large Cumulus but not very black on the underneath side, yet, but also with a fair amount of blue sky to about 35%/65% and I had just read the cell phone weather report that said RAIN Yay was in store. Well that didn't last long as after a little bit it began clearing up with more sun shinning through but that too was brief as it's now clouding up considerably and the sun is being subdued to keep things cooler! Yay, of course I'll have to admit I rather enjoy the cooler cloudy weather.
So lets see what WW says, shall we. They say it's 85.5 °F - Feels Like 86 °F, 10% chance of precipitation with Hum-i-dity at 37% which will reach 55% at 11:00 pm and supposedly going for a high of 92 °F, which I hope it doesn't. Winds are out of the SW at 4.2 mph.
I am always bemused by the argument (especially by learned people) that because the earth is a volatile and sometimes disastrous place to live on and can cause devastation and pollution of our environment by it's natural events, that that somehow absolves us of doing anything about what we are adding to it. Surely, because of those sorts of risks that we have absolutely no control over, this should make us even more careful of what we add to the cocktail. Should we just throw our hands in the air (polluted by nature or ourselves) and just say "To hell with it" and carry on regardless, or should we try to do something about that part we do have control over.
As far as the Professor quoted, I notice that mining engineering is one of his fields of expertise. I'm always a little sceptical (especially when we have so many coal mines and it is one of our largest exports), when I hear someone whose funding probably comes from those vested interests. bangin' on in their favour.
Personally, I don't care if the world IS getting hotter or colder because of these things, caused naturally or by human activity, I just think it's a crime to not take advantage of the energy that comes from the sun or wind or whatever, if the world tosses us a curve ball every now and then from fires, volcanoes etc, etc. then we need to do whatever we can to minimise and not add to the bad effects. To me, it's only common sense that something bad must eventuate if we just continue to increase pouring known pollutants into our environment. After all, would you want to live in a house where you never disposed of your own body waste or never took out the rubbish.
Say Toot,
You put forth some good arguments in one respect and I have to agree that if there is something we definitely knew we could do that is totally beneficial to all of us in all respects to attempt to correct the situation, I'd yes we should. But on the other hand about throwing up hands I have to ask, has all the emission attempted controls really done anything??
I can remember about twenty years back reading, as well as being verified by a good friend Harlan Benoy who was very well educated, that all the smog emissions crap they were requiring, at least here in the U.S.A. to be put on cars actually put more harmful pollutants into our air than they removed. Kind of a cut off your nose to spite your face situation. All during the last 55 of my 68 years I've noticed that all to often this that or the other was brought up that we supposedly needed to do to correct or attempt to correct some situation when those in our government and the special interests they serve really didn't know for sure whether it would do any good or not but kept right on pushing the envelope just like the global warming issue. Well good old mother nature is going to do whatever it she wishes irregardless of our feeble attempts to prevent it from happening. Ya I guess we should try to do something and cleaner burning fuel and better combustion cars seem to have done that, but I seriously doubt too all the controls aren't without side effects too. Like where is all that waste going and is it polluting ground water we all depend on for healthy plant life to give off oxygen?
I rather equate it with shoveling sand against the tide. Also, like the very pertinent point he brings up in the beginning of his article, the carbon gases are something very pertinent to plant growth to produce Oxygen to enable us all to breath healthy air. Sure I'm aware of situations on the globe that aren't the greatest, the Central valley in which I live in the foothills of on the Eastern side of below the Yosemite Mtn and Sierras, has the highest smog potential of any place in the U.S. but the winds of mother nature soon clear it all out when they blow or the rains come and wash it down into the ground and refresh the air again. All our efforts seem to be in vain in the name of a good cause at considerable expense to all of us for nothing and indeed even making it worse in the name of ecology such as the emission stuff?
As for the global warming and greenhouse gas kerfuffle, I don't believe what we are doing is having as large an effect as some would want us to think. That doesn't mean I think we should all just continue polluting and not being responsible. I wonder if the global warming is simply a method of attempting to get everyone to start conserving, and not dumping tons of crap into the environment.
Say Terry
I also don't believe that our efforts are really justified either in all respects or that we are told the complete truth about whether or not what we are doing is totally to our benefit or if we are cutting off our nose to spite our face. I think too much of this emissions stuff is more of a money making proposition in the name of doing some good without any proof if it is really doing anything beneficial?
David
I love it wow guess no chevy volt for me
Its gonna be 454 big block !!! Most of that
I knew but the green machine needs to make
Green cash sooo they ignore it lol
Say Blk Z,
Yah, I also think the point your making is very valid. I also believe that the newer engines with their fuel injection as well as improved gas has done a tremendous amount to reduce pollutants while our cars and trucks efficient to operate. Fuel system cleaner seems to do a great job too. Actually, what is really criminal on their part is that we are prevented from knowing the truth as it doesn't suit their scheme to control and bilk us out of lots of money in the process.
It's kind of like this alleged Fire Tax the State of California is trying to foist upon ever one which is a double tax and illegal, even per an individual in the State Board of Equalization, they are collecting the moneies under the auspicious of fire prevention and yet a State Congressman came out and stated that little, IF ANY, of the money collected actually went toward preventing fires and I know for a fact that the country area I live in you can drive down any road and see a considerable amount of dry grass right along the roads edge and up the various banks or into the fields. And several fires have started along the edge of the road too and burnt considerable areas before being put out. So it all a farse perpetrated on the Citizens which is UnConstitutional !
Have a great day. Oh, btw, still no rain.