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View Poll Results: Do you like global warming?

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    314 62.06%
  • No, it's bad.

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  1. #201
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mariss Freimanis View Post
    I organized a meeting today for what's coming and how to deal with it. The "hobby" segment will totally dry up because it's discretionary spending and there won't be any of that as I see it. Our emphasis will be towards the OEM market to exploit the inevitable cost-cutting that will ensue. Businesses will get much harder than it has before in the coming months.

    Mariss
    Many years ago I skydived with a man that owned a going business. His business made "bearing pads." These pads were large affairs that buildings in earth quake prone areas are built upon. They give the building foundation wiggle//waggle room when the ground gets feisty. He took great interest in his workers well being. You remind me of him. I don't envy your responsibilities. Not only do you look out for your family, and your business, but you also worry about your workers. You are a good man Mariss. I hope you can weather this storm.

  2. #202
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    I'm an OEM, so I'll be watching, Mariss.

    Great time to launch a new business, eh? Heh.

    --97T--

  3. #203
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    Do right as best you can as you see it,
    for yourself and others. Whether anyone is looking or not.
    Now that is about the most sensible thing I've heard in a long time and pretty much typifies my attitude in my past and present life. Seen me through so far

    I live by that.

    One other phrase I use every day- "Do something good for somebody and don't get caught doing it". Even if it's not recognised, it makes you feel good.
    I love deadlines- I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

  4. #204
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    Well, whether we believe in Global Warming or not pales into insignifance with the thought that this Planet may not tolerate the amount of pollution we are creating for it...that's all. If you recall the Christmas Island observation, that the inhibitants living there destroyed their environment progressively...and themselves eventually....have we learnt from the mistakes of others? I don't think so...

  5. #205
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    Anyone interested in a good short read ? http://www.factsandarts.com/articles...ng-since-1995/

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    Heh, so my property in NE will be tropical waterfront?

  7. #207
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    Yes, well diamonds, gold,and other minerals will be exhausted too. The earth doesn't "make" them, it had made them. So they might run out eventually, but how do you suppose we change all these people's minds? What can we say? We are oil dependent.

  8. #208
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    Quote Originally Posted by Prosper View Post
    Well, whether we believe in Global Warming or not pales into insignifance with the thought that this Planet may not tolerate the amount of pollution we are creating for it...that's all. If you recall the Christmas Island observation, that the inhibitants living there destroyed their environment progressively...and themselves eventually....have we learnt from the mistakes of others? I don't think so...
    Wrong island, it was never inhabited prior to European discovery.
    An open mind is a virtue...so long as all the common sense has not leaked out.

  9. #209
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    Quote Originally Posted by Geof View Post
    Wrong island, it was never inhabited prior to European discovery.
    Musta been those durn inhibitants!

  10. #210
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    The earth are warmer and warmer, I can stand summer days
    http://www.roktools.com

  11. #211
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    And now that the sun has quieted down with next to no solar flares or sun spots. What have we observed? Yeah snow and cold.
    Ya want to read a good book get "Red hot lies" about the evil lies and agenda of the crowd perpetuating this crap on us all.

  12. #212
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    Global warmng is a religion not science, it is driven by the sun not co2. indeed we have a huge decrease in global temps and may be in for another little ice age. Check out the paleo climate versus co2 charts, and especially Lord Monkton's paper.http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newslet...7/monckton.cfm he actually does good science. Especially interesting is the model the UN used designed to model vacuum tube amps and totally unsuitable as a clmate model.

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    Quote Originally Posted by amplexus View Post
    Global warmng is a religion not science
    Dear amplexus,

    Thank you for the link to the paper by Monkton. Most of it went totally over my head because I am not familiar with the details of the computer simulations. My fault absolutely.

    What I found completely shocking was the statement at the top of the article by APS...

    The American Physical Society reaffirms the following position on climate change, adopted by its governing body, the APS Council, on November 18, 2007: "Emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are changing the atmosphere in ways that affect the Earth's climate."

    Are those people compromised as regards science, or what???

    Best wishes,

    Martin

  14. #214
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    Hello Geof,
    "Wrong island, it was never inhabited prior to European discovery. "
    Below is an article re christmas island in the PACIFIC Ocean..it was inhabited prior to European discovery...like the Americas and Australia etc." I don't think we can bury our heads in the sand and declaring such places 'unhabited', so we can colonise them)

    "Kiritimati or Christmas Island is a Pacific Ocean atoll in the northern Line Islands and part of the Republic of Kiribati.
    he island has the greatest land area of any coral atoll in the world: about 322 square kilometres (124 sq mi)[1]; its lagoon is about the same size. The atoll is about 150 km (93 mi) in perimeter, while the lagoon shoreline extends for over 48 km (30 mi).[2] Kiritimati comprises over 70% of the total land area of Kiribati, a nation encompassing 33 Pacific atolls and islands.
    It lies 232 km (144 mi) north of the Equator, 6,700 km (4,200 mi) from Sydney, and 5,360 km (3,330 mi) from San Francisco. Kiritimati is the first inhabited place on Earth to experience the New Year each year (see also Caroline Atoll, Kiribati). Despite being 1,530 miles (2,460 km) east of the 180 meridian, a 1995 realignment of the International Dateline by the Republic of Kiribati 'moved' Kiritimati to west of the dateline.
    Nuclear tests were conducted in the region around Kiritimati by the United Kingdom in the late 1950s. During these tests islanders were not evacuated. Subsequently British, New Zealand and Fijian servicemen as well as local islanders have claimed to have suffered from exposure to the radiation from these blasts."

    Testing of nuclear weapons in sensitive places in 'foreign' countries is not something that is desired..

    Prosper

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    how can you like/dislike something that is not real.

  16. #216
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    Quote Originally Posted by Packers View Post
    how can you like/dislike something that is not real.
    Huh??? what's that supposed to mean by the way? What are you referring to?

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    Any of you can load up on google earth and spin the globe around to iceland and the hudson bay can see that in the summer when the space photos were taken, the areas around iceland are ice free. I think alot of you THINK that global warming is a good thing but you must understand, alot of cold water that is generated by these massive ice fields also help to regulate the coastal cities along the pacific and atlantic shores and for hundreds of miles inland. Should those waters increace by a few degress, you can rest assured that there will be extreem droughts, massive fires and other serios cosequences such as failed farming and the supply of food will be in short supply. What is happening to Africa can happen to the US and canada. I just recently heard that with California in a severe stage II drought, that vegtables being imported into Vancouver region will start to climb. Our food cost is already high enough as it is.

    Already, the wamer pacific waters are killing off the Kryll which is the main food source for our pacific salmon. Are salmon are in steep declines from this and other factors.

    Our BC forest has been ravaged by the mountain pine beetle. Billions of board feet are now worthless. If you drive up into the kamloops area, you will see miles and miles of dead forest simply because the pine beettle that for the most part dies off during the winter except a few, now survive.

    I honestly think the future will hold some very serios and geographicly wide droughts that will cause whole kinds of geopolitical issues with Canada and the US.

  18. #218
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    Yes Rhinoman, in any situation that happens, some will gain while others will lose out..that's the way life is on this planet... we just have to adapt to the changing environment since we are not going to be able to fully control it.

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    Mariss Maybe we should share our coffee with a few on this post ! To rich to pass up !
    Some can not connect the dot's so here is an easy little project maybe some will see the connections to. Now here in the states in public schools we were taught a tiny bit about gravity and how mass attracts mass and so forth and I am sure many here can fill in the dots from there? or can you?? Then a while back A fellow named Dyson Devised a system to with hope detect intelligent signals in space . So came SETI. In this simple sceam . it was within logic so it was given a run and a good bit more came of this program but a few super power gov's with some big moneys chose to shut it down in order to shut even more projects down such as the super collider in the states of Texas La and Arkansas. To bad for the France Japan and other nations that invested Millions and lost it coz some one had hold of the fed's neck. We are to this day still paying out the kazoo protecting and holding closed this site then ever it would had coast to finish the near done collider in the first place. So Please don't hold me or the citizens here any grudge. See it was sold to us this dumb so called geodome world was with out gravity so to induce it this world would have to be spun up so fast there was no substance known to man that would hold it together. It would simply fly apart. ! humm ? ok I ask, how these guys come to see it even built to then just fly apart. Now I'm about as ignorant as the next man but my views to such a glob had envisions the shear mass of said world the folks there would have calves like and elephant due at our size in a world the size of our orbits of the G32 stare we hang out with we would tripe the scales at about 4 to 600 pounds of force so we evolved that way or lived our lives as pancakes. Just as with magnetic flux this world would need no spin and more likely a way to reduce the mass attraction.
    So take our little rock we live on. Then look at that stare we all share and think about the amounts of iron in every practical of light that falls on us daily ( is the grass not green then dye brown )then add the figures on or rocks mass and the passing comic dust and do your numbers and you well all by your self see this rock collects tonnage daily of matter and the weight of this mass as like our sun and the laws of nature you just can't break , our little rock grows expediently and in its obesity grows and the pressure due gravity yields to heat . as with G class stares it comes a point this most volatile substance we call water will become the flaming components it really is H 2o. Given time it is un disputed this rock was born to be a stare. What are the contents in our old friend Sol any way. See any similarities. My coffee's hot ! Like a cup? So if you wish it to chase that idea the paper money is also based on gold like we alone take blame to warming .When it comes time to light the fuse of the rocket out of here I assume you maybe are going to miss the boat,then proving the good book correct your going to burn?
    Where on earth do these numbers come from where in the near future coastal cities be even 100 feet below sea level. I was banking on a few feet so My house I can see the ocean a few miles down the bay to become water front property and I sell for a hefty profit!
    I am sorry to remind those that have forgotten or not born in time to witness with there own eyes but in 1958 the government of the USA sent the army one Sunday during the church hour announcing on radio the head treasurer him self said The fed see it fit your ignorance to take possession of the gold and so did. From then on the paper money has been based or that very thing you carry with you to have a seat, and so often I hear in a crowed room I have nothing to sit on ??? I am sorry to see my friends in Europe now to are part of the governments casino sceam and put there wealth in the hands of the great social experiment . But it seams the experiment is working just fine. Who has your money now? We alone are bringing on global warming?
    Keep in mind too The church of Roam insisted the world was flat as they enjoyed cinnamon on there breakfast tables and war'ed with those that said other wise and then keeping there flock at bay.Portuguese keep there facts separate to avoid invasions and in a Brown Room some place in the Netherlands they took revenge on a annoying idiot with bad math selling him a map to the world as he saw with his bad numbers. Columbus forgot to think time of the day the sun marked time in so saw the world smaller and missed the great distance to get to the spice Islands . That's why the Portuguese never sailed west. It was simply a waist of time and further then the root they were using. To show and other simple root to this simple math use all the fingers you have no digging for gold now! Your house , or those in the cities take the road before you. Is it really sinking ? Now lets throw in all the hard stuff to and add to this confusion and make allowances the world is warming so sea levels rise you can buy all means toss into this equation and your still going to see what I see. NO it is not sinking unless you are in say New Orleans or what's that city in Asia ? Singapore pumping so much water from underground it defeats the rate of growth. The Earth rises around your house or road side. Life it self uses the iron in light then in its life cycle composts to soils and other matter, but if you cant warp your head around that then by all means get a transit and local land records and see for your self. Ten years is enough but 25 years back records may shock you. Sorry this wont work will every ware due erosion factors. So to you folks just look down stream to calculate your figures
    Its not complicated at all . So why make it so. And get your kids to the bus on time ! There training is essential so they can run this maze next !
    Coffee any one?
    There's more to the eye then the cat thats nimble

  20. #220
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    Once opon a time

    About 50 million years ago,large reptiles roamed our planet.An asteroid wiped them out within a few months.The fact is that this planet has been destroyed by internal as well as external forces many times and has managed to repair itself each time.I don't know how much time humanity has on this planet.Our time could end tomorrow or last thousands of years in the future.One thing is certain,nothing lasts forever and one day our time will end.When that time comes,the earth will again,repair itself and some life form will emerge.The dinosaurs had their time,let the human species have our time.

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