Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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I believe that beavers create deep holes that fish prefer and their dams act against flooding and serve as a filter for cleaner water. Both examples show how NATURE prefers a balance. And the converse of that is that mankind and especially a lot of mankinds can mess up that balance. Humans create an excess of CO2 that there are NOT enough plants, forests, and oceans to restore to balance out. I have given many examples, but the one that bothers me a lot is the acidification of oceans and the bleaching and killing of reef coral - it's like ripping up a beautiful painting ! |
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I never mentioned beaver flatulence. Where did you get that from? As for your premise that getting rid of mankind would cause an ice age, you are wrong. If humans all disappeared over night the earth would very quickly reclaim all that we had altered and restore the natural balance. The rest of the world doesn't need us, but we need it. So let's quit screwing it up?. Lastly, if I could control the climate, I would try to maintain balance, not make the North warm just for you? Lots of folks enjoy the mountains, snow and all. And the annual resupply of fresh water is essential to all life, not just human. |
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Sorry, but no one has proven that mankind has made any changes to climate change rotation, just as we have not changed the rotation of this planet. Spend all your money on this fallacy, since you all have so much to waste but I plan to continue to live without sacrificing. I will be considerate by disposing of my litter properly, but I will also continue to use fossil fuels. After all, what reason is there to leave them in the ground and not use them as GOD intended?
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No one claims humans have changed the earth's rotation. But, through over population and our destruction of land and sea habitats, we have increased the rate of the warming. And last, (tongue in cheek) lucky that God told you about what fossil fuels are intended for. The part about gas and oil refineries to operate IC engines, etc, wasn't in my Bible. |
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But seriously, I can't seriously take anyone who thinks 100 years of burning fossil fuels has significantly altered 4 million years of 100,000 yearlong cycles driven by the power of the sun and Earth's orbit, not to mention huge volcanic eruptions. It's the equivalent of thinking a single seasick passenger on a cruise line that vomits acidic stomach contents will lower the pH of the Pacific Ocean. That being said, is it possible that our current and future activity will accelerate the current global warming cycle that started 20,000 years ago? Entirely possible, but so far there is no conclusive proof, just speculation, conjecture, and extrapolation of short-term data. Probably the best conjecture came from climatologists that are not financially beholden to the current political view, who have stated that human activity will at most delay the next period of glaciation by 5-10,000 years----but this is due to the rise of agriculture in Asia over the past 8,000 years, NOT you SUV. But they too could be wrong. Time will tell. But by time I mean thousands of years, NOT the idiotic time frame of 5 years that has been suggested by some. |
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It is going to be 29 in the Villages on Christmas. At that will be not that much warmer than the weather in Minneapolis, MN on Christmas. Access Denied
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Disclaimer: I never professed to be a scientist or expert on the weather, so I tend to make my opinions based on common sense. I don't believe that mankind can perpetuate climate change, although I used to think that a nuclear explosion could cause a temporary winter weather change. That said, recently I believe that theory was debunked.
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The "100 years of burning fossil fuels" is only a part of the story that started when we first began to grow crops, build settlements. Settlements became cities. A few crops became huge factory farms with poisons and fertilizers that made their way into rivers, ground water and the oceans. Great forests that provided oxygen and neutraized CO2 were destroyed to make room for farms and livestock ranches that created more earth and air toxins, and the forests we needed were gone. The land was transformed and huge cities built with factories and refineries and manufacturing that dumped their waste into the rivers. The acids and poisons again made their way into the environment, poisoning the air, land and sea and we had damaged the lungs of the earth again. As our population grew, we did ever more damage to the terrarium we call home, planet Earth. The industrial revolution along with our exponential population growth and habitat destruction has not created the warming, but it has sped up the process. I know many don't believe it, don't want to believe it, refuse to believe it. I also know those same people won't change or alter their behavior in any way. Take it as science fiction if you like, but, think of all the commonplace things in todays world that were unbelievable science fiction only a mere 100 years ago, like your cellphone and other "miracles" of modern every day life. |
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