Global Warming - Yet another TAX
Posted: Saturday, 20 January 2007 |
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I agree with you on the evolution of the world bit, that we probably cannot reverse the damage, If GB ever gets to be prime minister, gawd help us all. We will all be taxed out of existence anyway. Only thing to do now, is get ready for the big bang!
AcutelyCurious from Coll
Indeed. If historians and scientists are to be believed the world has gone through ice age etc. and yet we are to believe that what we do today actually changes the course of the future. My lifetime is just a blip on the scale of a world that will keep turning and changing regardless of what I do. What they say may be true and equally it may not be, certainly there is so much agenda and there is always a second differing opinion. Just because we think we can explain why things happen, doesn't mean we have the influence over them that we like to think we do. However, I will continue to switch the light off unless I need it. I will never switch to an 'environmentally friendly' car though ;-)
Buzz from Glasgow
Not a theory at all, but an oft cited hypothesis. Theories have to backed by facts. Hypotheses do not.
hrossey from Mainland Orkney
OK you got me hooked but have n't time to reply right now, you'll have to settle for "now that really is daft" for now till I get back after the weekend.
John from Jura
Well I'm building an ark just incase,prepared to take two members of each committee on Jura so that should save virtually the entire population.
Rev. A. Lation from Sannaig Forest
So the fact that we meddlesome creatures have unleashed in two centuries or so all the carbon that nature had spent aeons trapping in oil, coal and gas deposits is only hypothetical. I suspect not. We may be the victims of a natural cycle but we have been guilty of enormous profligacy as well.
Hyper-Borean from Down t'pit
It was fun while it lasted......
Flying Cat from Up t'creek
All this talk of global warming makes me scared to use the ferry. Will I have to offset my carbon footprint when I go to Unst or Fetlar?
Muness from Fetlar
Depends how big your carbon feet are............
Flying Cat from shoe shelf shuffle
Rev. A. Lation: may I suggest you solve the long term Jura problem by conveniently forgetting to take lifesaver jackets, except your own of course (someone has to survive in order to be able to cry in the wilderness). I understand Nic from Coll had by coincidence hit upon the same idea as yours. Geniuses galore on the islands. In any case, no need to take pity on any albatross you may encounter on your peregrinations. Good luck!!
mjc from NM,USA
After some thought, I have decided not to have any committee members on board. With all the superstition on these islands about the clergy and boats they might turn on me and pitch me forth into the brine. glug glug.
Rev. A. Lation from melting ice caps
What a brilliant idea the ark and its passenger list is Rev. Please, please get the project started a.s.a.p. As it is not being organised by the interwoven and incestuous JDT JCC IATE & VH committees it will probably be 100% successful. If you just take as your two passengers from each committee the chairpersons and secretaries you'll only need passenger accommodation for less than half a dozen (although the egos would take up an extraordinarily massive amount of stowage space - weight won't be a problem here 'cos it's all hot air and gas) so the ark could be built really quickly - quicker the better.
Backward Hillbilly from Craighouse
I can almost hear the banjos duelling and see the patched and faded dungarees hinging by a thread. All this pulling together bodes well for the ark.....
Flying Cat from Arkadia
Banjos dueling: are you going to launch the Ark Deliverance down the river in North Carolina? Let me know when. I used to live in the deep south (my teeth? They are fine, thank you!).
mjc from NM,USA
Oh well since the notion of an ark is so popular, how about a name for it perhaps something like '' The Salvation''. Sorry Backward Hillbilly no room for you maybe you should keep Ruraidh company, I want a happy ship.
Rev. A. Lation from Arkansas
An ark, great idea, any room for a few covenanters?
Hyper-Borean from A rare rat
Smurfing the ocean waves sounds like smurftastic fun, I suggest a good name for the ark '' The Hebridean Smurf''.
Little smurf from Smurflussa
Hyper-b., if you can't find a place at this late date on the Ark, come on over to North Carolina, and I'll have a metal canoe (and a banjo for dueling) just for you...
mjc from NM,USA
Is there anyone else who would like to join our good selves, the smurfs and the covenaters aboard the Ark? I suppose we will have to form some sort of committee and probably a sub-committee to get things moving smoothly.
Rev. A. Lation from Ark H.Q
mjc, if it's a canoe, can I have one of those nice Old Town ones? Actually I'd like an Adirondack Guide boat.(Don't get me started on old style boats or I'll be up all night)
Hyper-Borean from Way down upon the Suw.......
Hyper-B.: an Old Town is a possibility, but Adirondack ones are rather atmospherically priced, and more fragile, are they not? Furthermore, they are rowing not paddling canoes. # My wife tells me that I was getting my States mixed up: Deliverance was shot around Tallulah Gorge in Georgia (she tells me), and the NC rivers are much more sedate (Nantahala etc). We lived in both Durham (NC) and Augusta (Ga.) for several years before moving to the sw, and I should know better. In NM you could do whitewater rafting on the Rio Grande in the Taos Gorge area. You would not want an Adirondack ...
mjc from NM,USA
Really, Hyper-B?
Flying Cat from Cheshire Grin
Point taken about the rowing mjc but I suspect the guide boats are stronger than they look. Clinker (clencher in your neck of the woods) construction is remarkably resilient, witness the viking ships, partly because there is an element of flexibility. My inclination is for the lazy rivers always fancied doing a Huck Finn on a log raft. Without the missing persons and riding on rail episodes.
Hyper-Borean from Nostalgia nook
Mjc. Crossing threads as it were. I'm just looking at a small ad for a guide boat. !6 ft new cedar hull. $7500 it's a snip, better for lakes than rivers but what the heck For that sort of money here you could get a nice Swallows and Amazons look alike. I will if you will.
Hyper-Borean from Further up a lazy river
I checked the website re: adirondacks and the latest from Old Town. Sorry, Hyber-B. but I am not Bill Gates or Branson: it's Coleman aluminum canoes for you. And you have better be thankful. The alternative would be for you to wait till you come to southern Indiana, and I would provide you with rope and some tree trunks and you can paddle all the way to the Ohio and out further onto even bigger rivers. You would then call me when you get to Noo Orleeens.
mjc from NM,USA
Call you when I get to Noo Orleans mjc? too many bad connections since that Packenham feller and his bacon and his beans chased us through the briars and the bushes.
Hyper-Borean from Out in the Gulf
I like Lonnie Donegan's version of the Battle of New Orleans myself. Had a nice rhythm to it. Anyway, you can come Hyper-B.: we have forgotten and forgiven (after all, we did the whuppin!).
mjc from NM,USA
And after all we did burn down the White House so maybe we deserved it.
Hyper-Borean from Rehabilitation corner
Right, I forgot all about the White House bit. For your pains, and in remembrance of times past, the rope you can expect to receive with the logs will be dutifully frayed.
mjc from NM,USA
And then mjc there was the regretable lapse on the part of the Lancashire cotton kings who funded the CSS Alabama. I doubt if the yankees have forgiven us for that yet. On the other hand we have just paid off our recent war debts. 59 years on!
Hyper-Borean from The confessional
On the lend lease debt: so I heard. I am surprised the US government did not just say (as it should have): oh, forget it. I.
mjc from NM,USA
Whether natural and will last only a few thousand years, or man enhanced, the fact remains global warming exists and that certain problems will arise, and are arising. However, there is a solution that will not only lessen effects of global warming in terms of reducing rising ocean levels, but will also help to reduce shortages of fresh water, reduce starvation, generate more bio-fuel, and ultimately reduce global warming. If the most comprehensive civil engineering project in world history would be undertaken in which sea water was desalinized and pumped into enormous man made reservoirs in the interior areas of huge land masses such as Central Asia, Australia, Western US, Northern Africa and others, these reservoirs could be used to provide vast amounts of fresh drinking water to people who are without, as well huge tracts of land that are now not arable could be irrigated and cultivated to not only produce food that would feed the starving, but could also be used to create bio-fuel thereby reducing global warming emissions. In addition, areas of the world where desertification is encroaching on civilizations such as Northern China, could increase tree planting and other crop development. Not only would such a solution eliminate these potential crises, but in would provide employment to many millions of people who are either unemployed or under employed.
Cliff Friedman from China
Actually, whilst doing an OU course on Fossils and the History of Life, I learned that we are most probably in between ice ages, as these occur due to natural disasters; whether it be meteorites hitting the Earth every few million years or so, or a megavolcanic eruption which would cause a sulfur haze so thick that no sunlight would be able to penetrate for years, is neither here nor there. Yes, I agree that we are contributing to it by chopping down rainforests, pumping out gases, etc. from factories, cows farting (methane...), etc etc. Therefore, instead of building an ark, maybe we should build bunkers deep in th Earth's crust and have underground cities just in case the ice age comes sooner than we think! Mind you, if we had an ark, I bags the seat next to pandas - nice big cuddly pillows!
SaturnGirl from Renfrewshire
Glad to see someone taking notice of our mighty undertaking. However I think an underground village is a dash good idea, perhaps we should form a commitee !!
Rev. A. Lation from Down under
That's strange, John from Jura never posted after the weekend, maybe he cannot argue with the truth
Stephen from Jura
Living on the Isle of Jura
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