Re: OT Gas Prices and the Blame Game

On 17 mei, 11:29, "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Robert Baer wrote:

bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:

On 16 mei, 14:32, "amdx" <a...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 Bottom line is Drill Alaska, Florida coast, and California.

http://archives.gophercentral.com/Conservative_Review_.html

While you've still got them. Burn even more oil in even less efficient
cars, and the atmospheric CO2 levels will go up even faster than they
are going up at the moment, the ice caps will slide off Greenland and
Antarctica, and you won't have a Florida at all, and the Californian
and Alaskan coasts coast will be a long way inland from where they are
now.

So you'd better extract the oil while you still can ... and not leave
it around for your grandchildren (who will face an increasing risk of
having to learn to breath water, if your children don't relocate
further inland quickly enough).

It's familiar right-wing thinking - they grab everything they can now,
because they are going to screw up the future so comprehenisvely that
none of their descendants are going to be around to take advanatge of
anything they might leave unexploited.

The creep quoted obviously doesn't believe in global warming, so feels
free to ignore it. By the time global warming gets bad enough that
even inland idiots like Jim Thompson can't ignore it, it's going to be
much more difficult - probably impossible, with a significant
proportion of global resources suddenly vanishing under the rising
seas - to do anything about it.

--
Brain dead in, Nijmegen
   Perhaps this second flood will fix the major problem by reducing the
world population.

   Bill is too stupid to realize that Phoenix is 1100 feet above sea
level,

What makes you think that? Jim is obviously too high to be directly
affected by any likely sea level rise, but there will be other things
going on which may finally attract his attention.

while Nijmegen is list at about 22 feet above sea level?

That's the river frontage in Nijmegen, which gets submerged any time
the Rhine get high. Our house is 64 metres - 210 feet - above sea
level.

 My home is abut 100 feet above sea level so if Bill gets his wish, he will be
dead, long before either of us.

Since what would kill Michael - if he lived long enough at the same
address - would be the flood surge from a hurricane, rather than the
steady rise of the sea level, this is an implausible prediction.
Hurricanes will spread north as global temperatures rise, but it will
be long time before they menace Nijmegen, long after Florida has been
scrubbed off the face of the Earth. The low lying twit should be
thinking about what happened to the low-lying areas of Burma last
week.

And - just for the record - I'm all in favour of cutting carbon diode
emissions back to the point where we won't lose the the ice caps and
Florida.

 I wonder if he even remembers that
floating ice displaces the same amount of sea water as it will after it
melts?

Since what I wrote was "the ice caps will slide off Greenland and
Antarctica" one would have thought that even someoe as intellectually
challenged as Michael Terrell should have realised that I wasn't
talking about about floating, but rather about ice that is piled miles
high on top of solid bedrock.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
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