OT - Weather Worries?

"Judith Latham" wrote in Friday"!) -
I'm not sure about this global warming, I think things have shifted around
a bit. We are having much colder bouts in winter, which seems to be
earlier, and summer seems to be quite moderate and again, starting
earlier.

I don't know about Global warming but I do know that it's no good worrying
about it.

And I also know that the USA are bad about using big cars and a huge amount
of electricity.
China & India are worst for global warming atm.

"Christina Websell" wrote in message
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"Judith Latham" wrote in Friday"!) -
I'm not sure about this global warming, I think things have shifted
around
a bit. We are having much colder bouts in winter, which seems to be
earlier, and summer seems to be quite moderate and again, starting
earlier.

I don't know about Global warming but I do know that it's no good
worrying
about it.

And I also know that the USA are bad about using big cars and a huge
amount of electricity.
China & India are worst for global warming atm.

A great many of us in the USA are very happy driving smaller cars, and not
all of us are electricity hogs. I admit, we use more than you do in the UK,
but we have a lot more heat to contend with, for one thing.

Joy

On 8/19/2011 7:07 PM, Joy wrote:
"Christina wrote in message
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"Judith wrote in Friday"!) -
I'm not sure about this global warming, I think things have shifted
around
a bit. We are having much colder bouts in winter, which seems to be
earlier, and summer seems to be quite moderate and again, starting
earlier.

I don't know about Global warming but I do know that it's no good
worrying
about it.

And I also know that the USA are bad about using big cars and a huge
amount of electricity.
China& India are worst for global warming atm.

A great many of us in the USA are very happy driving smaller cars, and not
all of us are electricity hogs. I admit, we use more than you do in the UK,
but we have a lot more heat to contend with, for one thing.

Joy



When I'm not at the top of my manic mode, trying to fix the universe, or
at the bottom of my depression mode, thinking the the universe was
ending (no, I'm not really bipolar, I just mimic one ;), I sit back and
take a longer view of the world.

I think that every generation thinks their world is coming to an end
(and, in a way, they're right because they *will* die one day), but it
never seems to really happen. I remember being in grade school, in the
50s, having "nuclear bomb drills". Who was the genius who came up with
the bright idea that children would be safe from a nuclear explosion if
the hid under their desks?!! I mean, we were living right outside of a
major US port, New Orleans, which would surely be targeted in a nuclear
ware, was a small wooden desk really protect us? All it really ever did
was scare the bejesus out of us.

Then in the 60s, people (well, mostly science fiction writers of whom I
was a fan) started to be aware of pollution, the population explosion
and all sorts of other disasters to come. But if you look at a picture
of Los Angeles from back then, and one of it today, you would be amazed
at the bright, clear, haze-free sky. Oh I'm not saying we're not in
trouble, but I think, well maybe just believe, that the human race will
find a way out. Any Doctor Who fans here?

He always manages to get into the worst predicaments, in the darkest
most hopeless places. But he always manages to find a way out, a
solution. At the end of season five, the whole universe was
"de-existing" - having never happened, but he managed to "reboot" it and
set everything to rights.

No, I'm not that crazy that I'm living in a science fiction television
show, but I've seen some mighty improbably things in my life time. I
used to ride a bicycle carrying a large "transistor radio" - I could not
have even imagined a chip, this size of my fingernail, that could hold
thousands of songs! Hell, we went from that to putting a man on the
moon in little over a decade later.

I may be wrong, we may end up extinguishing ourselves, and that will be
terrifically sad, but then there will be nobody around to cry over it
will there? I choose to keep believing that we'll find a way to save us
all, maybe at the last, critical instant, but I believe we can do it.
I'll just not be around to see it, sad to say.

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"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote
rain forests produce most of the world's oxygen. Wipe them out, and ALL
life disappears!

It is estimated by scientists that 70-80% of the oxygen in the atmosphere is
produced by marine plants.

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote
at the rate our rain forests are being destroyed, we'll probably run out
of oxygen

It is estimated by scientists that 70-80% of the oxygen in the atmosphere is
produced by marine plants.

Pat wrote:
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote
rain forests produce most of the world's oxygen. Wipe them out, and ALL
life disappears!

It is estimated by scientists that 70-80% of the oxygen in the atmosphere is
produced by marine plants.

And our oceans are ALREADY in trouble!

Sherry wrote in rec.pets.cats.anecdotes:

We are extremely frugal with water. It actually annoys me to see a
lush, green lawn this summer.
It just shows incredible waste of a commodity that's particularly
precious this year.

Not neccesarily. Some grasses are extremely drought tolerant. I have
such here as we do not water the lawn at all and never have. Compared
to other yards, in a dry time we look exuberantly 'lush' but we are not
wasting anything, not even well water on it.


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