War in Antarctica! Is it reality? http://antarcticaland.tripod.com/antarctica.html

Ah shoot, I was hoping to enjoy this halfway rebuilt house in New Orleans. But then I guess we all knew we were kidding ourselves…........I hate to think of EVERYONE on the coasts having to “Live like a Refugee.”

Why isn’t the world population ever discussed regarding world climate change?

We are spending a lot of time discussing the symptoms and possible fixes for those symptoms, but the root cause is the number of human beings on the planet.

Back in the 70’s there were discussions on the total number of humans the world could sustain. They never discussed what would happen if we attained that number. It was as though that number would suddenly become static when it hit it’s peak. The number I remember was 9 Billion persons. I thought that was way over-optimistic then and I still do.

3 Billion was then, and is now the optimal number. How do we reduce to that number without causing catatrophic meltdown of our economic systems? I don’t know but someday all religeous groups will reverse their position on procreation being a god mandated truth.

The Christian God mandated through the parable of the Gardern of Eden that man had better take care of the garden. He didn’t say how.

Gore solution: let firms and people with high CO2 emissions purchase offsetting “ice credits.”  Receipts for a ski vacation or bags of cubes purchased at the local liquor store will suffice.  A Chilly Willy Foundation will recruit contibutors to a “adopt a penguin” program.  ADM will allocate a penny from the sale of each gallon of corn ethanol to sponsor an Antactic laboratory that produces an annual documentary about CEOs and rock stars kissing seals on ice floes.

Seriously, CO2 emissions defy any cheap solution but the issue invites all sorts of fake or self-serving schemes.  The only effective solution would be to tax coal, gas, and oil consumption.  This would provide an instant incentive to economize transportation, consumption, and sprawl.  But, of course, every populist would want to nullify the impact by introducing a kazillion exemptions.

Is there a way to drag this Texas-size evidence to the Crawford Ranch?

I have been following various scientific studies regarding global warming since the 80s. These lerned men have no doubt gathered a great deal of information that has now become an overwhelming pile of evidence that confirms that the ice on our world is melting. The suprising thing is that in the past five years the speed up of the melting process has become dramatic. What was not supposed to occur by 2050 or 2100 is occuring right before our eyes and right now! A dramatic melt down of the antiartic ice cap was not predicted by the computer simulations even a few years ago.
I was hoping that I would not live to see the results of the ‘big meltdown’. Now I am considering a move to higher ground or the purchase of something that floats…perhaps something like an arc for me the wife and the cats?

There goes the East Coast and the West Coast…

and here comes the return of Lake Bonneville….
Salt Lake City will soon be on the beach…

And some people though Kevin Costner just made the whole thing up.  “I’ve got some beachfront property in AAAArizona.”

HokaHey!