Climate change is happening in front of us

I heard scientists said it was really real. but others said it ain't. Which ones gonna take my truck?

Good question, Cleetus. People who believe in man-cause global warming want to take your truck from you and make you ride a bicycle to work. They feel that the problem is so bad that they should control your life. There are even some who feel that the population of the earth should be reduced to one-third of it's current level.
However, their hypocracy shows what they really believe. Al Gore still rides around in a private jet, burning fuel like crazy and spewing carbon dioxide. Al's busy getting rich off the hysteria, but not walking the talk. Those who believe in radical depopulation are saying that governments should control the number of children you have, rather than reducing the population by taking themselves out of the picture.
Over the last 10 years the earth's temperature has cooled. But they won't tell you that, because then they can't justify taking your truck, Cleetus.

If global warming isn't real, then why have a dozen of the warmest years on record occurred in the last 2 decades? Pollution from coal fired power plants has been shown to be the main culpret & costs our health care system billions of $$ every year (Science Daily online). Its time for America to move to the next step in power generation and job creation. History shows that EVERY culture that stagnates falls, and I would rather see America keep succeeding. We have an abundance of Sun & wind, lets use them. Other parts of the U.S. are moving forward from the dark age of coal, its time for New Mexico to join the modern world.

And Al Gore makes a trip to the bank every day because of those poor folks who believe his "You must conserve, but not me". Balony. Why is he telling us to drive mini cars, while he and Obama burn up hundreds of thousands of JP4 Jet fuel playing God to the world? It's a trick folks. A dirtyo trick to control the lives of their subjexts.

Keep your truck, support sharia oil.

'I do know that in the past 20 to 25 years, we have had more drought years than periods of normal or above-normal rainfall.
Will we lose more animal species just as we've lost dinosaurs, woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers'?
Global warming if it was occurring would cause more water evaporation and thus more rainfall resulting in more rain forests.
Dinosaurs, woolly mammoths, and saber-toothed tigers, living in rain forest, all went extinct 65 million years ago due to an asteroid that fell in the what is now the Gulf of Mexico. The dust formed from this event blocked out the sun, smothered most of these prehistoric animals, and caused an ice age which took out the remaining prehistoric animals. What evolved as the earth once again warmed up (true global warming) from this catastrophic event were the mammals of which humans are one, dating back to 4.5 MYA.
It is interesting to note that the bluffs to the south of Farmington, the Ojo Alamo Formation, formed during or just after this event, 65 MYA. At the base of the bluffs one will find a yellow iridium layer which is the dust from the asteroid that smothered the prehistoric animals. If you are walking downtown, you are walking where dinosaurs once roamed; conversely if you are walking at San Juan College you are walking where dinosaurs did not exist.
Now I ask the writer, what in the hell did the energy that Dixie writes about have to do with any of this ?

D J P wrote:

If global warming isn't real, then why have a dozen of the warmest years on record occurred in the last 2 decades? Pollution from coal fired power plants has been shown to be the main culpret & costs our health care system billions of $$ every year (Science Daily online). Its time for America to move to the next step in power generation and job creation. History shows that EVERY culture that stagnates falls, and I would rather see America keep succeeding. We have an abundance of Sun & wind, lets use them. Other parts of the U.S. are moving forward from the dark age of coal, its time for New Mexico to join the modern world.

Proof please.

Street Slum Slayer wrote:

<quoted text>Proof please.

Proof of what, if I may ask?

I may be ill informed, but isn't the new power plant they are building here outside of Farmington going to have those wind generators? What are they called turbines?
I think that puts N.M. in the modern world now.

Lab wrote:

I may be ill informed, but isn't the new power plant they are building here outside of Farmington going to have those wind generators? What are they called turbines?
I think that puts N.M. in the modern world now.

No, it's coal fired. There are wind turbines in NM,but the Desert Rock plant will be powered by coal.

oneeyedjac wrote:

<quoted text>No, it's coal fired. There are wind turbines in NM,but the Desert Rock plant will be powered by coal.

I could have sworn that they were putting wind turbines somewhere outside of Farmington. Oh well, I guess I can hope.

Over 50 years ago almost everyone was burning wood and coal to heat them homes, cook, etc. I can remember going to Pueblo, CO and Provo, UT by the steel mills and you could hardly see the road at times. If burning coal is so bad now, why wasn't it affecting the temperatures then? The world climate cycles.

Frankly, I think the diesel pickups and vehicles and politicians are putting more polution into the air than the power plants.

Orchardmom wrote:

Over 50 years ago almost everyone was burning wood and coal to heat them homes, cook, etc. I can remember going to Pueblo, CO and Provo, UT by the steel mills and you could hardly see the road at times. If burning coal is so bad now, why wasn't it affecting the temperatures then? The world climate cycles.
Frankly, I think the diesel pickups and vehicles and politicians are putting more polution into the air than the power plants.

No offense, but 50yrs ago they thought uranium was great stuff too.

Did you know that an asteroid passed the earth yesterday. Did you put on your emergency breathing air, turn on the lights, and turn up the heater; if not you are not prepared. Note: Solar lights and heat won't work when the sun is blotted out, wind turbines will clog with dust and stop.
Just something else to think about.

HiDixie wrote:

Did you know that an asteroid passed the earth yesterday. Did you put on your emergency breathing air, turn on the lights, and turn up the heater; if not you are not prepared. Note: Solar lights and heat won't work when the sun is blotted out, wind turbines will clog with dust and stop.
Just something else to think about.

Actually I did'nt even have my heat on it was very warm yesterday, Thanks to climate change.

Get a grip were all not paranoid here. Some of us just want to make small changes here and there to benefit our Enviroment.

8 years, 20 years, 50 years, 2000 years, less than the blink of an eye in geologic time. Mans time on earth is a mere blink in time.
The earth has gone through several severe climate changes and will go through several more before the sun engulfs the earth.

Proof is in the numbers. Maybe you could do some actual research, instead of listening to (and believing) big mouth morons like Rush L. This is the problem with Americans; they think if they ignore a problem or talk it to death it will go away. Reality is a bitch for the uninformed.

You can either be Sheep and follow the masses or you be a Herder and take action.

I am concerned, but not in a panic.

Yup, climate change is happening at near record rates.

I have been able to predict it quite accurately over the years.

In the fall it gets colder.

But have no fear, it will warm up again in the spring. You can bet on it. I've been correct ever year for the last 40 years.

And in an even more confounding move, in the southern hemisphere the patterns are reversed!

Seriously, global climate "panic" is a sham, perpetuated by shyster politicians who want to control your life.

Thankfully, the folks are learning in record time that our current shyster politicians are absolutely clueless about most everything, and they are soon to be replaced.

Let's hope they get replaced with people who want to capitalize on American's greatness, rather than continually apologize for America and put her down.

We need manufacturing, we need mining, we need energy production, we need to create an economic climate where we no longer make foreign nations rich at our expense, while those nation's people are virtual slaves making our shoes, televisions, and small appliances.

Lab wrote:

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No offense, but 50yrs ago they thought uranium was great stuff too.

Uranium is great stuff, if handled correctly. Instead of being frightened by it, we should embrace it for the power it holds. France has done it.

Petroleum isn't good for you if you drink it. Fire isn't good for you if you stand in it. Electricity isn't good for you if you take hold of the wires. The sun isn't good for you if you stand naked letting it shine on you every possible moment. Even a strong enough wind will knock you down and blow you away.