Re: More Gore

In <pan.2008.06.03.20.29.55.443625@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Richard The Dreaded
Libertarian wrote (with slight line editing by me for space):
On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:54:19 -0700, bill.sloman wrote:

Ignoring the IPCC may not necessarily put us on the road to hell, but it
may well lead our descendants to a much warmer world.

That's another thing - even if you have the True Faith, why is warmer
weather, with its longer growing seasons, richer and lusher rain forests,
reduction in heating costs, etc., bad thing? I say bring it on! Nobody
likes to freeze their ass off all winter.

The "Bad Thing" that I see first firsthand is increased air conditioning
costs.
And when I travel, I experience increased need of air conditioning
in my vehicle. When my vehicle is a 4-wheeled one with a fuel-burning
engine, increase of need for air conditioning increases load to the
engine, as opposed to increase of opportunity to make good use of waste
heat from the engine.
When my vehicle is a 2-wheeled human-powered one, I find that, when I
pump out the horsepower, the heat works very well (even with ambient
temperature as low as 5 degrees C) and the air conditioning is usually
insufficient when the ambient temperature exceeds about 25 degrees C no
matter how fast I go.
I can adjust upward my comfort range about 2-4 degrees C if I wear a
summer-style dress - as in a "dress" being a kind of garment "normally"
worn by women. Should a gentleman have to wear such a garment when
driving a personal vehicle in the Philadelphia area while refusing to pay
USD $ 4.05 per gallon for gasoline?

I do well enough riding a bicycle even into the wind when the
temperature is -20 degrees C and the wind is one step short of "gale".

Dewpoints of 26-plus degrees C with temperature in the mid-to-upper 30's
degrees C are thankfully so far infrequent extremes in Philadelphia when
Satan's area code gets to be 215! I want no uptick from this!

- Don Klipstein (don@xxxxxxxxx)
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