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View Poll Results: What are your thoughts on Global Warming
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I've been planning to run for the hills and hide in a cave somewhere
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Hoping for the best but worried
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I knew something was up, but holy cr*p! I didn't know it was that bad
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Whats global warming????
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They think they know alot, but I bet it will all be ok.
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Hogwash! No such thing as climate change!
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11-17-2007, 10:36 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Zone: 5a
Location: PEI, Canada
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Reading this thread it seems it is very one sided only a handful of people mentioning that there are many many many factors that affect weather. Let us not forget the gravity of the sun pulls us closer to the sun every day and the moon is drifting away slowly, and those are the two key elements in weather.. Oh and that same drift of the moon and the tides they form on the ocean slows the rotation of the earth a small degree which increases the length of a day by thousandths of a second every year. This all may seem small but I know I live in Ohio and when we get on the back side of the sun and the earth is not tilted in our direction it gets pretty stink cold and the opposite happens 6 months later. Don't get me wrong I think we do need to curb our pollution but most of us on this site grow orchids not native to our areas, that is not natural and ultimately wastes energy. They evolved to thrive in their enviroment not the one we build for them. I love the hundreds of orchids I keep but I understand to do so in Ohio means I have to use lots of energy to keep them warm and cozy when winter comes. As for those who think humans can't survive... wake up... we can keep people alive on machines, exchange body parts, oh and I almost forgot we did live through an Ice Age.. I thought that was a massive climate change that affected all flora and fauna.. I mean I haven't seen a wolly mammoth in Ohio in thousands of years.. Humans live because we adapt as do many other mammals. That is how we (mammals) survived the extinction of the dinosaurs.... which was yet another climatic event. My wife is currently midway though veterinary medicine school and we cherish the lives of animals quite a bit but none of us wants to abandon our lush lives to live were no other animal does so we don't upset it's habitat. I dare say that many of us here us mouse traps and antibacterial soaps, if you had termite you would probably call and exterminator, and of course pesticides on our orchids. All harmful to some creature.
That being said, I must say I'm not an expert nor should anyone here claim to be especially about weather, my local weather man is notoriously wrong all the time I don't know about you. I'm not going to hedge my bets that everything is going to be fine either. Personally I find it wasteful to use something that isn't renewable or free. I am always dreaming up new ways to make my greenhouse and home more efficient but unfortunately sometimes the costs to go green don't aways offset the savings. I grow a lot of my food not because of all the pesticides and "genetically altered" foodstuff but because it's cheap and I enjoy it. I would love to build a wind turbine to harness the energy of the eternal 30 mph winds that storm across my property from Oct to March (which happens the be the same time I have to heat the greenhouse). But they are well out of my budget to build one powerful enough to power 7000 watts of heaters all day. Nor would my wife appreciate the large size of such a creation. If I had all the money in the world I would buy the patent rights from dupot company of their new solar paint which can turn any surface into a solar panel. Those that speak of over population, as grim as it may be perhaps "global warming" is the way of the earth to rid itself of a large number of inhabitants bringing everything back into balance. By no means am I advocating the demise of the worlds flora and fauna population. We have more than enough food worldwide to feed everyone 30 times over, most of the US's fields lay fallow because the government pays them to be (I know because I live in the middle of hundreds of acres of fallow fields that were once corn). It's just politics, oddly people are equal, it seems those with the ability to lead often lack the knowledge to do so, and those with the knowledge rarely have the charisma. So I urge those that think they have the knowledge run for office and see how well you do.
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