Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 22:10:47 -0500
Reply-To: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: OT Hurricanes--really an accident?
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Jim,
You betcha there is a self regulating system at work. The totallity of
our planet is nothing more that a very complex system in equilibrium,
and it is drriven by solar energy. The single thing that is
unprecedented in history is the rise of humans and their ability to
impact that system in equilibrium. One of the features about
equilibriums is that when you put pressure on it in one place, it
self-adjusts to accomodate for the added pressure. It is automatic and
it is physical. The consequences can be devastating for living things.
But rest assured that the reaction of nature to what we are doing to the
planet is normal, expected, and in time will bring things back in
balance. Not balance as we want it, but balance as nature demands it.
And she won't give living things any consideration in the process.
Mother Natures attitude is " bend with the changes, or break". no in
betweens.
If we are to survive as a species, we had better get smart and yeild to
the lessons being taught, or we may make like the dinasaurs and simply
disappear.
Regards,
John Rodgers
88 GL driver
Jim Felder wrote:
> Kinda like saying you were driving your vanagon at 95 and accidentally
> threw a rod...
>
> Actually, it's been waiting to happen for about three centuries, and
> "coincidentally" it "happened" when the temperatures in the gulf spiked
> up and the poles got warm enough to slough off ice fields the size of
> small American states.
>
> So maybe there's a self-regulating system at work here, not the
> dice-rolling chance that some like to presume: ironic, isn't it, that
> the warming of the gulf waters could be lowered by a series of
> hurricanes that cuts supply of oil, thereby driving the price up and
> thus lowering consumption, which results in cooling the waters and
> weakening the effects of those hurricanes so that oil can flow freely
> again?
>
> RVC: get a diesel vanagon and burn bio of any kind. No net gain in CO2.
> No man-made increase in global warming, and IF that's the problem, then
> we're doing all we can to solve it. The pres sez that acquiring clean
> energy is going to ruin the economy. Looks like the weather will beat
> us to it!
>
> Jim
>
> On Sep 21, 2005, at 4:49 AM, Andrew Grebneff wrote:
>
>>> In a message dated 9/21/05 1:23:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>>> crescentbeachguitar@TELUS.NET writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Good luck Richard, I hope things aren't as bad for you as they
>>>> were/are in
>>>> Louisiana and Mississippi.
>>>
>>>
>>> Global warming is REAL.. and the hurricanes will get WORSE.
>>> its not going to get any better folks.
>>>
>>> dont invest in any beachfront property is all i can say..
>>>
>>> chris
>>
>>
>> I hate to say it, but New Orleans has been a disaster waiting to
>> happen for decades. It wasn't a matter of if, it was a matter of
>> WHEN. Well, it's WHEN.
>>
>
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