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C Melody Saxophone Forum / Good Natured Banter / Global Warming

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Sir Edmund KT
User ID: 1516194
Sep 23rd 9:06 AM
So yet another hurricane is on its way, this time hurricane Rita. People are heeding the warnings and moving away from the areas at risk. I've seen reported on the news 100 mile road jams; so many more vehicles pumping out greenhouse gases to pollute the atmosphere and contribute to global warming. When is the American Administration going to take notice and sign the Kyoto Agreement to reduce carbon immissions? For many years America has been burying its head in the sand and now it is reaping the whirlwind. Do you think Americans know who to blame for this mess?
Alan USA
User ID: 2309834
Sep 23rd 9:10 AM
Sir Edmond KT....Do you know who to blame for this mess? (an opinion only, of course)!
Sir Edmund KT
User ID: 1516194
Sep 23rd 9:39 AM
Alan USA... Capitalism... the jingle of moneybags and religion ... which is the sentiment of a heartless world.
Sir Edmund KT
User ID: 1516194
Sep 23rd 9:51 AM
I blame the enormous pressure that big business brings to bear on the American Administration for this mess. Somehow or other, all American Presidents have been frightened of big business and their allies, the copper bosses and religion. What would actually happen if an American President stood up and said out loud... I'm the boss.. do as your told?
Alan (UK)
User ID: 8200143
Sep 23rd 10:17 AM
I see a US 'weather expert' being interviewed on CNN already saying "No, not so much global warming, as natural variability of the seasons, possibly for the next ten years".

Even as water floods back into New Orleans over newly repaired levees, there is still enough sand left for the 'experts' to bury their heads in. Look at what's happening all over the world, guys !

Sigh........

Alan USA
User ID: 2309834
Sep 23rd 12:56 PM
Sir Edmond KT........John F. Kennedy started out being a puppet; Then he got an attack of patriotism and wanted to clean house and do the right thing! So they killed him! End of Story! That's what happens to Presidents who want to really help this Country! A No Win Situation!
WW2
User ID: 0882114
Sep 23rd 1:43 PM
Of course, global warming is not just a problem on EARTH. MARS is experiencing Global Warming, so is Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus. Will the Kyoto protocol help them?

Besides, the USA is not the only producer of greenhouse gases. Why blame the USA when the burning of tropical rain forests in Brazil dump more CO2 into the atmosphere than the USA produces? What about all of the wild fires that devastated California during the last couple of years? Or the wild fires in the entire western half of the USA. Will the Kyoto protocol stop them?

Perhaps the volcanoes need to sign the protocol because of their massive pollution.

Stop blaming the USA. This is a world problem, not an American problem. Or perhaps the heavy industry of the US is what killed the Black Forest in Germany?

It is too late to stop the trends that are happening. We are DOOMED!
SelmerSaxMan
User ID: 9154853
Sep 23rd 4:24 PM
dream on. The idea that most people have of global warming is an utter falacy. Sure, green house emissions can't help, but global warming and freezing is a natural process going back millions of years. We are just coming out of an ice age, so naturally, things are going to get warm. The water shortage in lake meade was blamed on global warming until it was realized that the last 100 years have had unnatural amounts of rain - a pattern that turns up once every few thousand years. It is a ntural process of warming and freezing. in another some thousand years, thngs are going get cold again.

Wade, also perhaps we should tell cows to stop releasing gases from their intestines.
WW2
User ID: 0882114
Sep 23rd 6:12 PM
And think of all the CO2 that comes out of SAXOPHONES when they are being played!

Joke:

Q. Why is the air so bad in Los Angeles?

A. So much of it has been through saxophones.
Ken
User ID: 0171704
Sep 23rd 6:14 PM
More gas (petrol) available to those poor people on the north bound traffic jams in Texas would have been a sign of at least some planning for a mass exodus by automobile.
Alan (UK)
User ID: 8200143
Sep 23rd 10:08 PM
I think some of you seem to be going off on a tangent. Global warming, or natural phenomenon, whatever you want to call it, it all seems to be resulting in higher sea levels and more extreme weather. Resulting in more deaths and disruption.....

So would it not be useful to at least listen (with an objective mind) to the arguments ? I'd at least like to leave some kind of habitable world for my granddaughter, most of us old scrotes will be gone in 20-30 years - think about the next generations.
SelmerSaxMan
User ID: 9154853
Sep 23rd 10:09 PM
Ken, that isn't the way things work. Gas is not an unlimited resource of it - you can only have so much of it at a time. Even if the government were to subsidize higher gasoline stocks, that doesn't mean that they would get enough. not to mention, that gas can only be pumped so fast. but ok, I guess in the Uk you guys do it where you build a gas station in a matter of hours.
Alan (UK)
User ID: 8200143
Sep 24th 3:16 AM
Think SSM is having a poke at you Ken, I just wish I could understand what he's trying to say....

However, it doesn't take a genius to anticipate the need for extra petrol tankers (and breakdown recovery vehicles) pre-positioned at strategic points on an evacuation route with 7-8 lanes of slow moving traffic....

But then we're only Brits, with no idea of how it all happens in the 'real world', eh ? Arf-Arf. Guess more than a few people found just how much gas their gas-guzzlers consumed in slow moving traffic. Maybe there's hope for them yet.
Guwapo
User ID: 0038914
Sep 24th 7:05 AM
Whilst I disagree with the wholesale burning of the virgin forests of Brazil and Indonesia, and know that this burning pollutes the air and blocks out the sun, they do not cause global warming. What causes global warming and depletion of the Ozone Layer is the burning of fossil fuels, such as petroleum products and coal. Nuclear Power on the other hand does not contribute towards Global Warming. It is true that Venus also experiences Global Warming, this is through volcanic activity on the planet, but the Earth does not experience the kind of volcanic eruptions that are seen on Venus. The United States is responsible for 89% of the total emmission of greenhouse gases, it is therefore responsible for Global Warming. So why do they bury their heads in the sand and blame Brazil? Because it justifies exploitation and teaches people to be resigned to it. It also teaches the religious to be charitable and as it were, provide them with a cheap ticket to heaven.
SelmerSaxMan
User ID: 8645673
Sep 25th 3:13 PM
greenhouse gases don't deplete the ozone. And burning would most definitely produces greenhouse gases. one word, "hydrocarbons." people make greenhouse gases too - as do all other oxygen breathing organisms

Yeah, alan thats right, none of you that have been so desperately poisoned by the left (or even radical far right for that matter.) have a clue of how the real world works. look at what Germany is doing right now - you have far left and not so far left, and the entire EU is suffering because they can't make up their mind over something trivial.
SelmerSaxMan
User ID: 8645673
Sep 25th 3:15 PM
And by the way guwapo, that religous bit at the end - people haven't thought that way since the schism - as long as you aren't mormon. But for some reason, I think that you weren't including them in your statement.
Sir Edmund KT
User ID: 1516194
Sep 25th 5:05 PM
SelmerSaxMan .... lay the blame for global warming on the doorstep of the the country which is responsbile and not any others countries doorstep.
Guwapo
User ID: 0038914
Sep 25th 5:38 PM
SMM .. I think if I were to answer you we'd be going a long way off the topic, but what a profitable faith it is for an insignificant minority that enjoys wealth and power, whilst the majority constantly suffers deprivation and want and at the same time teaches us to bear uncomplainingly the woes of hell on earth, in the hope of an alleged paradise in the skies? The helplessness that people feel in their daily struggle in life inevitably generates a belief in a better life after death and gives rise to a belief in gods, devils, miricales etc.
SelmerSaxMan
User ID: 8645673
Sep 25th 10:01 PM
edmund, what did you do to become a knight? did you free a cat from a high place in a tree?

Guwapo - that is not what I meant. What I meant was which: That people generally don't think that they can just buy their way into heaven, if they are really into their religion. The major exception is mormonism, which demands that you buy your way into their equivalent of heaven.
Guwapo
User ID: 0038914
Sep 26th 4:13 AM
SMM - I'm sure there are many rich and powerful people who think that by being charitable they are buying an advance ticket to heaven on the cheap.

Do Mormons buy their ticket to heaven whilst they are still alive? Who do they pay it to? How does it work?
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