[lit-ideas] Re: global luke-warming
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:18:14 -0400
How do you explain it, Lawrence?
> [Original Message]
> From: Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 4/13/2006 2:15:41 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: global luke-warming
>
> On a related subject, or perhaps an earlier one where some here were
> imagining what it would be like after we ran out of fossil fuel in 20
years
> or so - the end of civilization as we know it or something very near - has
> everyone noticed that Brazil will become energy independent this year?
They
> have kicked their oil addiction and have substituted ethanol:
>
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-03-28-brazil-ethanol-cover_x.htm?POE=
> TECISVA . The article indicates that the U.S. is pursuing ethanol with
> greater interest, but we are a long way behind Brazil. Why are we so far
> behind? I feel need of another Andreas Big-Oil conspiracy theory.
>
>
>
> Lawrence
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> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: global luke-warming
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>
> Before anyone jumps all over me as a conservative naysayer who speaks for
>
> big oil, let me say that I am NOT denying that the consequences of
burning
>
> copious amounts of fossil fuel are that certain things about our
>
> environment are changing -- pollution and a very slight change in the
>
> makeup of our atmosphere are obviously consequences.
>
>
>
> My argument is with the varying notions of problems gathered under the
>
> heading of "global warming" which most people don't know the definition
of,
>
> since there really isn't a definition. My trouble is that to imply "the
>
> planet is warming up" is deliberate misdirection for political reasons so
>
> that people will 'take notice' of this 'global problem' which is a
doomsday
>
> scenario in its present incarnation.
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>
>
> The thing is, the problem is not well defined so that lots of phenomena
>
> that normally and naturally happen are brought under the "see, global
>
> warming IS happening" umbrella and both snow/rain and drought, cold and
>
> warm, ocean currents and ocean calmness, evaporation and arid conditions
>
> are all blamed on "global warming."
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>
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> >The WSJ editorial page is ultra conservative.
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> >
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> > And... ANY "Green" movement is ultra-liberal. Your point?
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> >
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> Real quick. Any green movement is ultra-liberal? If you say so.
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>
>
> I reckon.
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>
>
> >Mexico City; Teheran; most of China the air is unbreathable (something
like
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> >80% of the country)
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>
>
> Do you mean "unbreathable" as in 'will not sustain oxygen breathing
life"?
>
> Or are you just hyperbolizing?
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>
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> >and many places in China are actually soot covered;
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> >India; Madison and Lex in a summer smog alert;
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>
>
> smog alert? You know, I used to live in a city that had regular 'smog
>
> alerts'. On a summer day, 100 F, hazy, humid as a sauna, and the radio
>
> would say "there's a smog alert, don't do any strenuous exercise" blah
>
> blah blah. Our bicycle group would meet and ride our regular 150 km with
NO
>
> ill effects. Of course it might be dangerous for the
>
> respiratory-challenged, but do we REALLY need to design our societies
>
> around its illest members? Cleaning up the smog is a noble notion. I WORK
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> as an engineer who has as one of my primary jobs, designing systems for
>
> scrubbing pollutants out of exhaust gases and designing waste water
>
> treatment facilities. We achieve great results in doing this, but it's a
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> long process to retrofit every plant in the industrialized world. AND...
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> like I said, the other countries you mention are now going through what
we
>
> already went through. They can't afford to put the blocks to their
>
> economies just as they are building them up. The notion that dilution is
>
> the solution to pollution is an old one and hard to break -- Afterall,
the
>
> world is HUGE [he said ironically] -- I think we're getting there.
>
>
>
> >L.A. before the clean air legislation; the hundreds of Superfund sites
in
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> >this country, midnight
>
> >dumping just about everywhere and on and on. There's acid rain in
Alaska,
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> >in Ca
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