Global Warming

[chris chunt]

Big snowflakes coming down and settling where I live.
And we haven't even turned our cocks back just yet.

Global warming my arse

[Roubignol]

Originally Posted by chris chunt

Big snowflakes coming down and settling where I live.
And we haven't even turned our cocks back just yet.

Global warming my arse

Do you trust the NASA ?

Here are maps about the temperatures on the Earth since the January 2018 compared to 1951 to 1980 temperatures.



And this one compares the temperatures from 2017 to 2000 to the temperatures from 1970 to 1979



The diagnosis is... warmer.

[Mal Hombre]

If electric cars do replace internal combustion,It would mean that We would be able to say"Fuck You" to Saudi Arabia..

[chris chunt]

Originally Posted by xyzde69

Do you trust the NASA ?

Here are maps about the temperatures on the Earth since the January 2018 compared to 1951 to 1980 temperatures.



And this one compares the temperatures from 2017 to 2000 to the temperatures from 1970 to 1979



The diagnosis is... warmer.

Oh crikey yeah
The red and yellows look a bit different in some of them.

The poor employees of nasa on a day like this knowing what they know.
Huddled round a candle to keep warm.
Just an apple and a stick of celery to eat.

Not for them the opulence of the 21st century living.
No gas guzzling cars.
No foreign holidays on jet aircrafts.

No sending rockets into space with all the fuel that uses....
Ermmm

[chris chunt]

So I get up after a night shift and there's two foot of snow outside the house.

[Arturo2nd]

Originally Posted by chris chunt

And we haven't even turned our cocks back just yet.

I wish I could turn my cock back. Damn thing rarely gets hard anymore.

Global warming is a bit of a misnomer for massive climate change, more frequent and violent storms, droughts, rising sea levels, irregular weather patterns and disruptions of seasons. We are after all talking of average overall temperature changes of only a few degrees. It is hard to believe that the rise portends such drastic changes to the environment that has favored the proliferation of our species.

[steamjon]

Originally Posted by Mal Hombre

If electric cars do replace internal combustion,It would mean that We would be able to say"Fuck You" to Saudi Arabia..

I think they have plans to generate Solar power and sell that on.

After all in the UK we will need heck a lot of electricity to charge our cars.

[bowlinggreen]

Originally Posted by steamjon

I think they have plans to generate Solar power and sell that on.

After all in the UK we will need heck a lot of electricity to charge our cars.

There are no supertankers that can carry electricity.

And you'll lose a lot of watts across 3500 miles of transmission lines.

And how much fossil fuel energy will be expended smelting the metals for that huge transmission infrastructure?

[scoundrel]

Originally Posted by deepsepia

One of the interesting lacunae of imperialism was the Royal Navy's search for big timber for shipbuilding -- masts being a particular problem. Britain and Northern Europe were fairly quickly denuded of the most massive trees . . . North America, Australia and New Zealand served later.

In the Old Testament, you'll read of the "Cedars of Lebanon" -- these were mostly gone in ancient times. A small patch remains.

For the Royal Navy, see:
Forests and Sea Power: the Timber Problem of the Royal Navy, 1652–1862

and

Insatiable Shipyards:
The Impact of the Royal Navy on the World’s Forests, 1200-1850



There is surprisingly a lot of reforestation already. Many areas of the Eastern United States which were clearcut and farmed have returned to forest cover. They're second growth, but if you were in, say, Ithaca, New York in 1850, you'd have seen much less forest than you do today.

Much of the oak and elm wood used by Nelson's navy came from the New Forest, where plantations of suitable trees were planted for ship building from Tudor times onward. Britain is also slowly increasing its tree cover, for example with the national forest project.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Na...orest_(England)

[Dr Pepper]

Originally Posted by scoundrel

Much of the oak and elm wood used by Nelson's navy came from the New Forest, where plantations of suitable trees were planted for ship building from Tudor times onward. Britain is also slowly increasing its tree cover, for example with the national forest project.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Na...orest_(England)

Still a few of the cedars of Lebanon left-(the area is a national park)-and of course they feature on the flag of Lebanon-as iconic an image as the Canadian mapleleaf