Global Warming?

[Short Game]

He needs to stay out of the sun.

Henh.

 

[Dustier]

Guess I should have quoted Coulter's whole rant: "...It's used to kill bacteria in food and treat cancer."

Yup, time to load up the bus to Fukushima.

 

[Short Game]

The study says tipping points tend to occur when 50 to 90 per cent of smaller ecosystems have been disrupted.

I hear the earth is a big tipper.

 

[EE_Bota]

Guess I should have quoted Coulter's whole rant: "...It's used to kill bacteria in food and treat cancer."

Yup, time to load up the bus to Fukushima.

Well, in context, she is exactly right. Out of context, it sounds like a joke or a lie.

 

[houstonscott]

The ultimate - "Radiation is good for you." - Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter is right without the suns light (radiation) there is no life on earth.

HS

 

[Dustier]

The ultimate - "Radiation is good for you." - Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter is right without the suns light (radiation) there is no life on earth.

HS

Gosh. It makes me wonder, then, why did the Japanese gov't move all those people away from the melting nuclear power plants?

Sounds like the right move is to get a solar panel and soak up all the free radiation. Got any ideas on how to eliminate the unwanted caesium and iodine?

Got tuna?

 

[SPYDERLK]

Guess I should have quoted Coulter's whole rant: "...It's used to kill bacteria in food and treat cancer."

Yup, time to load up the bus to Fukushima.

Mutation speeds evolution.
larry

 

[EE_Bota]

Gosh. It makes me wonder, then, why did the Japanese gov't move all those people away from the melting nuclear power plants?

Sounds like the right move is to get a solar panel and soak up all the free radiation. Got any ideas on how to eliminate the unwanted caesium and iodine?

Got tuna?

Moderation in all things, including radiation. No use to overdo.

 

[EE_Bota]

Mutation speeds evolution.
larry

In populations where the generations roll pretty quickly, one would think that the number one adaptation being bolstered is the individual's ability to repair it's own DNA.
No mutation necessary, just making the best at DNA repair the dominant individuals due to massive genetic pressure of the radiation insult. It would be a bit like what the plague did to the Europeans...many of those folks left were immune to the plague, but the plague didn't make them immune, it made them prominent in the population. Many of the immune are immune to AIDS, which gave the researches the plague M.O. as a partial indicator to understand the point of action of the AIDS virus.

 

[Dustier]

You understand, of course, that there is no safe level of radiation?

 

[Johnp33]

Where I am there are dozens of Families that live off the power grid many do have generators. There are the ones that run diesel, gas, and propane.
Many more of them run a hybrid system of solar, wind, and even water generators, all charging batteries.
Some of the systems are huge and power a household with no limits, some power a few batteries to have light.
Having some no mind spouting the party line on every subject, to me seems stupid Quit picking on George Bush, he was the one that promoted wind power the most. Look it up.

 

[Dustier]

Having some no mind spouting the party line on every subject, to me seems stupid Quit picking on George Bush, he was the one that promoted wind power the most. Look it up.

Do you mean the "Clear Skies Initiative" he signed off on that gave polluters the right to pollute more or the clear cutting of our forests here in Oregon? I don't mean to pick on George, but he could have better than Cheney.

The point, however, is not about Bush and his policies, it's about the quality of your life and mine - in spite of the perceived differences we appear to have.

My perspective is what's good for you and good for me makes us both stronger to face down those who desire to cheat either of us.

 

[Short Game]

Copied from another forum:

Let's completely ignore the fact that a potential extinction level event happened at Fukushima on March 11, 2011. There are some 1560 rods of fuel (~200 are unspent) hanging precariously over a pool of water that is cracked and leaking. Forget that one of these rods (provided this is MOX fuel which is likely) has the potential to kill 2.7 billion people. Forget that there is no plan in place to remove these rods in less than three years. Forget that the building where they are has been rated a 0 on the seismic scale and can potentially collapse with even a slight tremor.

Let's also ignore the fact that three buildings down the line from the above described mess, Fukushima #1 was in meltdown BEFORE the tsunami arrived.

 

[Dustier]

Warmest U.S. spring on record - NOAA

WASHINGTON, June 7 (Reuters) - So far, 2012 has been the warmest year the United States has ever seen, with the warmest spring and the second-warmest May since record-keeping began in 1895, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported on Thursday.

Temperatures for the past 12 months and the year-to-date have been the warmest on record for the contiguous United States, NOAA said.

The average temperature for the contiguous 48 states for meteorological spring, which runs from March t hrough May, was 57.1 degrees F (13.9 C), 5.2 degrees (2.9 C) above the 20th century long-term average and 2 degrees F (1.1 C) warmer than the previous warmest spring in 1910.

Record warmth and near-record warmth blanketed the eastern two-thirds of the country from this spring, with 31 states reporting record warmth for the season and 11 more with spring temperatures among their 10 warmest.

"The Midwest and the upper Midwest were the epicenters for this vast warmth," Deke Arndt of NOAA's Climatic Data Center said in an online video. That meant farming started earlier in the year, and so did pests and weeds, bringing higher costs earlier in the growing season, Arndt said.

"This warmth is an example of what we would expect to see more often in a warming world," Arndt said.

 

[SPYDERLK]

You understand, of course, that there is no safe level of radiation?

There is background radiation on Earth. Radioactive decay keeps the interior hot. The exposure level is low and its net effect on life is probably benign due mild mutagenic effects spurring evolution.
larry

 

[Johnp33]

In Texas when a billionaire wanted to pump radio active waist threw the aquifer. They just had the map redrawn and the aquifer moved. Problem solved.
Those Billionaires are out there to help us they will tell us how to vote and what is good for us, all we have to do is listen.
The S&P 500 had record profits and the top 1% made record income soon, real soon it will trickle down and everything will be perfect.
I can see the light in some areas it could be the forest fires they will go out in the fall, Maybe.
You have to believe those Billionaires pay a lot of people to teach us the proper way to think on these sites. Be sure you thank them, and vote how they tell you, they are looking out for you best interests. You all know that.

 

[Cat_Driver]

Sounds like a DRAW to me.....

Alaska's spring months were 2.7 degrees F (1.5 C) cooler than average and 10.5 percent wetter and snowier, while drought spread over Hawaii, though exceptional drought was eliminated across the island state.

However, there was more ice cover in the Arctic in May 2012 than in May 2011, the center said on Wednesday on its website nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/ . There was heavy ice in the Bering Sea, but unusually low ice extent in the Barents and Kara Seas.

 

[EE_Bota]

You understand, of course, that there is no safe level of radiation?

You understand, of course, that your statement has little practical value.

 

[Short Game]

...about 43 per cent of Earth's land surface has been converted to agricultural or urban use.

Forty three percent is cropping, cruising, parking, and roofing? Add a some strip mining, deserts expanding, forests burning, glaciers melting, wars, and what could possibly go wrong?

 

[Dustier]

EE Bota: You understand, of course, that your statement has little practical value.

Henh and there I was thinking I was prescient.

SPYDERLK, thanks for the clarification.

Do you know how many people die of the thing that killed them 20 years later?

Well, the Japanese probably have a web site with the stats from our atom bombs and I'll bet the casualties past and present run into the millions. Read somewhere about how many US troops, used as lab rats, died of cancers after testing the dang things, too.

Not long ago I read a background piece of casualties from Chernobyl and it seems the casualty numbers go from the absurd to the fantastic - nature of our times I suppose, but woefully depressing, nevertheless. Especially since Chernobyl fall out was killing Colorado deer deep in the wilderness. This beautiful Pacific Northwest is inundated with Fukushima fallout. Who do I thank?

I was surprised, when researching how long the human body could live, that more than a few sites supported 125 years. There seems to be nothing on the cause of why not now, but my take on the matter is that it has more to do with the chemicals coursing through our bodies from our food, water and air. Heard a radio guy say he had his blood tested and there were some 180+ foreign chemicals in his blood. Another sign of our times, I suppose.

Anyway, if I don't want a man-made/manipulated deadly substance to pollute my body, my family and/or anybody else, it would only be polite to allow me and everybody else to "just say no!"