[zendog3]

This year we have experienced stronger storms, more frequent floods, droughts, forest fires, rising seas, melting glaciers, etc. Most people will agree that global warming, caused by the release of carbon dioxide into the air, is a primary driver of catastrophic weather events that will seriously impact the quality of life our children and grandchildren will inherit from us. The Villages is uniquely positioned to lead the nation in remediating the harmful effects of ongoing carbon dioxide pollution.

It would be a source of pride for all Villagers if the developer of The Villages, the preeminent builder in central Florida, and an enormously profitable business, would announce one of its forthcoming villages would be a “Solar Village.” Every house and public building in the solar village could be partially solar-powered.

As it has led in planned community development, The Villages can lead the nation in sustainable community development.

[JerryLBell]

The Top of the World retirement community already stresses solar power and very high insulation levels in their houses. It surprised us to hear that and yet see almost no solar power in houses in The Villages. We see plenty of solar water heating for swimming pools but very few solar panels for electricity. Given that The Villages outsells Top of the World (and everybody else in the retirment community), I wonder if they made the calculation that too few people are willing to pay the initial bump in housing prices to incorporate solar power to warrant widescale inclusion.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by zendog3

This year we have experienced stronger storms, more frequent floods, droughts, forest fires, rising seas, melting glaciers, etc. Most people will agree that global warming, caused by the release of carbon dioxide into the air, is a primary driver of catastrophic weather events that will seriously impact the quality of life our children and grandchildren will inherit from us. The Villages is uniquely positioned to lead the nation in remediating the harmful effects of ongoing carbon dioxide pollution.

It would be a source of pride for all Villagers if the developer of The Villages, the preeminent builder in central Florida, and an enormously profitable business, would announce one of its forthcoming villages would be a “Solar Village.” Every house and public building in the solar village could be partially solar-powered.

As it has led in planned community development, The Villages can lead the nation in sustainable community development.

Please tell me that is a tongue in cheek joke, please. No one, perhaps with the exception of Al Gore, should believe any of this "global warming" garbage that is being shoved down our throats, although PT Barnum was right when he said that there is one born every minute. I have explained at least a dozen times that we have been in an ice age for 4+ million years with cyclical periods of glaciation and thaws (and therefore periods of warming and cooling). We have been through both the warming and cooling limbs of this cycle at least 2 dozen times in that period and 2 things are true-----
1) we are still here
2) It HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SUV'S OR ANY OTHER ACTIVITY OF MAN

Our kids and grandkids?????? Not likely, although our descendants in about 15,000 years will live at the peak of the warming cycle and our coastal cities will be under 100 feet of water. But don't break out the sunscreen and swim trunks just yet, because 30,000 years after that, NY City will again be under 2 miles of ice.

But, if anyone doesn't understand the simple science behind paleoclimatology, then by all means let's spend 100 trillion dollars over the next 40 years to combat "global warming" What a joke!

PS: This is not to denigrate solar power---it is a good thing and there are plenty of reasons to utilize it. However "global warming" is NOT one of them

[B-flat]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Please tell me that is a tongue in cheek joke, please. No one, perhaps with the exception of Al Gore, should believe any of this "global warming" garbage that is being shoved down our throats, although PT Barnum was right when he said that there is one born every minute. I have explained at least a dozen times that we have been in an ice age for 4+ million years with cyclical periods of glaciation and thaws (and therefore periods of warming and cooling). We have been through both the warming and cooling limbs of this cycle at least 2 dozen times in that period and 2 things are true-----
1) we are still here
2) It HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SUV'S OR ANY OTHER ACTIVITY OF MAN

Our kids and grandkids?????? Not likely, although our descendants in about 15,000 years will live at the peak of the warming cycle and our coastal cities will be under 100 feet of water. But don't break out the sunscreen and swim trunks just yet, because 30,000 years after that, NY City will again be under 2 miles of ice.

But, if anyone doesn't understand the simple science behind paleoclimatology, then by all means let's spend 100 trillion dollars over the next 40 years to combat "global warming" What a joke!

PS: This is not to denigrate solar power---it is a good thing and there are plenty of reasons to utilize it. However "global warming" is NOT one of them

I like your style!! Hmm you seemed to rattle a few cages too

[Michael G.]

Record Smashed at South Pole

[retiredguy123]

OP, are you suggesting that every house and building in an entire village have solar panels installed on the roof? Do you also want the taxpayers to fund tax credits for these systems? It would be much more efficient and effective for the power company to produce some of their power using solar panels at their plant. Solar systems for individual houses in The Villages are not sensible or cost effective.

[Number 10 GI]

There are more holes in the global warming hoax than in Swiss Cheese. Ole P.T.B was right.

[Gpsma]

Think the esteemed developer should get rid of the cattle they keep on land they already own. Why?..call it farm land and cheaper taxes.

Dont they know cow flatulence is killing the environment!!!.

All these cows are melting the polar ice caps and we will be drowning soon.

Solar power...as a young kid, i already knew that the sun had power. I burnt many an ant with a magnifying glass.

[Number 10 GI]

Originally Posted by Gpsma

Think the esteemed developer should get rid of the cattle they keep on land they already own. Why?..call it farm land and cheaper taxes.

Dont they know cow flatulence is killing the environment!!!.

All these cows are melting the polar ice caps and we will be drowning soon.

Solar power...as a young kid, i already knew that the sun had power. I burnt many an ant with a magnifying glass.

I grew up on a farm where we had a lot of cows. They do not fart, they cannot fart! Cows have a ruminant stomach comprised of 4 separate compartments. If an animal with a ruminant stomach eats fresh clover hay, gas will build up in the stomach and eventually swell the stomach to where it will interfere with breathing and stop the heart causing death. The animal with a ruminant stomach cannot pass the gas. Horses are different case, they fart loudly and often.

[Mortal1]

*yawn* when science doesn't match up with your world view....just change the science eh?

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by B-flat

I like your style!! Hmm you seemed to rattle a few cages too

That was to be expected.

Unfortunately, the powers that be have inundated and permeated the people's thinking that they are not capable of discerning the reality of our climate.

Joseph Goebbels put it best:

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

OP, are you suggesting that every house and building in an entire village have solar panels installed on the roof? Do you also want the taxpayers to fund tax credits for these systems? It would be much more efficient and effective for the power company to produce some of their power using solar panels at their plant. Solar systems for individual houses in The Villages are not sensible or cost effective.

Besides not being cost effective, I think solar panels are unsightly and actually deface the home. We will NEVER have solar panels on any home we own.

[maxfl1]

Well, how about a lecture on subject from MIT scientist. Maybe you will learn something.
2018 Annual GWPF Lecture - Prof Richard Lindzen - Global Warming For The Two Cultures - YouTube

[thevillages2013]

Originally Posted by zendog3

This year we have experienced stronger storms, more frequent floods, droughts, forest fires, rising seas, melting glaciers, etc. Most people will agree that global warming, caused by the release of carbon dioxide into the air, is a primary driver of catastrophic weather events that will seriously impact the quality of life our children and grandchildren will inherit from us. The Villages is uniquely positioned to lead the nation in remediating the harmful effects of ongoing carbon dioxide pollution.

It would be a source of pride for all Villagers if the developer of The Villages, the preeminent builder in central Florida, and an enormously profitable business, would announce one of its forthcoming villages would be a “Solar Village.” Every house and public building in the solar village could be partially solar-powered.

As it has led in planned community development, The Villages can lead the nation in sustainable community development.

Should include a picture of your roof that is obviously covered with solar panels. Wait, what do you mean you don’t have solar panels?

[maxfl1]

You are wrong about "most people." How about learning something from long time MIT scientist. Most of what you list are short term "weather" events. Not climate change. They lost the debate on "man made global warming" and had to leave that behind for "climate change." Now, of course there is climate change, but you guys leave out the sun and rotation of the earth.
Learn something here: 2018 Annual GWPF Lecture - Prof Richard Lindzen - Global Warming For The Two Cultures - YouTube
And, I am sure if I was to meet you, I would see that you have solar panels (not sustainable or biodegradable), electric car and keep your thermostat at the low 80s, correct?