Re: Time to dispense with Greenland?
Andre Jute wrote:
>
> In the last fortnight on most days my ride was either prevented or
> ruined by a cold wind from the North. And this has been a grim winter,
> with my central heating oil bill twice what it was last year. I
> certainly hope that after a particularly tough winter we shall not
> again soon hear from the instant short-series "experts" that we're all
> doomed because global warming is here. I say, bring on global warming,
> the sooner the better. And I've been to the Arctic. If it melts, no
> loss. Not to mention that the cold wind ruining my rides starts around
> Greenland. Time to dispense with Greenland too, don't you think?
There's a recent report of data from a US satelite launched in 2002
which shows a trend that can only disspoint the pro-greenhouse lobby.
We are have had a nice coolish summer and slightly more rain for
an El-Nina year which occurs after an El-Nino pattern that
brings drought, and 2002 to 2007 was a terrible drought.
I hav a feeling this El-Nina year is a very weak, and perhaps
we'll swing back to drought sooner rather than later, because of
total greenhouse warming.
Experts are only ever 81% right when they say they are 90% right,
and all their peers agree.
But when they are only 60% right, their predictions for the future
are no better than a chimpanzee with 3 options, it'll be better, the
same, or worse.
Last week drmatic photos came from Antarctica showing the initial
breakup
of sea ice with 14,000 sq km in area.
Its been there maybe 20,000 years and now is melting.
Another vast area that'd been there for yonks only took a few years to
dissappear.
My electricity bills are the rising because the arsoles supplying
say they want more money all the time, and at a rate faster than the
inflation rate. Banks put up interest rates here to about 9% now
and that's inflating things even more while its been done to reduce it.
When the yet to be invented Department of Greenhouse Policing and Energy
Regulation, GPER,
gets started the price of electricty is set to sky rocket +12dB,
and my standard of living will plummet -6dB.
Our AUD is up near the USD, and our oil prices are linked to the USD.
If the $ drops again to 60c like so often before, we will see a huge oil
price hike.
Meanwhile people keep paying me wages I can't stop sneering at.
Average wages in Oz are now AUD $44,000 pa, and enough to bribe anyone
who is actually sensible into never complaining about anything, really.
There is only 10 people in Oz who are really sensible, and they are
ridiculed as being
Loony Frugals. How dare they live so cheaply!! its real bad for the
economy.
But demand for 10 bedroom houses is blossoming; people only want more
after getting it all.
We spent maybe a million years trying to get enough to get by on,
to prevent stravation and to breed just enough ppl.
That problem has been solved.
But now we head like lemmings ove the cliff, utterly undriven, without
aim, and unable to
change priorities to having just enough and no more, because as the
ancient greeks
realised, too much is just as bad as too little.
One thing is absolutely certain. We as a species WILL become extinct.
Just how soon is debatable, but probably you and your children have time
for a few martinis
before its all over. Like most you can serenly take the Egyptian
solution
and be In De Nile.
But over it will be for many species now living, including us.
The fossil record reveals many species that only lasted so long, then
poof, they are gone forever,
perhaps leaving some mutants behind. If there is a God, and he is
Willing,
and with the 10,000 random chances Nature hurls at us so callously,
maybe these critters develop into something else quite different.
>
> Andre Jute
> * members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/BICYCLE%20%26%20CYCLING.html
>
> PS Of course, next week the cycling weather will start in earnest... I
> feel it in my bones. So don't expect me to hang around arguing
> fruitlessly with the environmentalists about their religion of doom
> and gloom. I'm a Simonite: my environment is better every year, and
> has been better every year of my life, as anyone can see who keeps his
> eyes open and his brain in gear. Those of us who know better will be
> out cycling while you waste your time talking to no one. Ciao.
My environment gets worse and fuckin worse each fuckin year.
Its all caused by too many humans ruining fine landscapes,
and seas and rivers.....
I spend my time making amps, and being on the bike,
and definately never in a state of denial about something I see
happening
so plainly.
But it may reverse, and things might turn to a little ice age.
I just cannot agree we will get away with putting a huge amount of
carbon into the air
in a few hundred years that took Nature millions of years to bury.
There are too many problems to face that cannot be easily solved.
Oil and water and povety et all.
Way too many people around.
Just imagine, in 1,000 years, do ya think they'll be oil left in
the ME?
How about clean water supplies in China?
Rain forest? lions and tigers? Maybe we'll be gone...
If ever the Aids virus became as catchable as the common cold, and
more virulent, watch out.
Patrick Turner.