| Re: "Humans 'very likely' making earth warmer" is wrong
Joe Fischer <joe@westpointracing.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Bill Baka <bbaka@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> ..........
>> With 9 billion people all competing for space and paving
>> over every thing in sight,
>
> You need to get out more, except for a few places
> like close to Manhattan, Los Angeles, Miami, etc., people
> often get lost in the woods.
>
>> plus deforestation,
>
> There are a lot more trees being planted than
> cut down, the big deforestation period was the century
> before coal was available at low cost.
>
>> plus the jet travel,
>> something will have to give.
>
> Because of a lack of affordable energy, not
> a lack of space. It was 30 F here this afternoon,
> and driving past the cement plant, I turned off the
> climate control in my car to prevent the white dust
> on the road near the cement plant getting in the car,
> and when I turned it back on, the air conditioning
> came on for a minute, the sun was warming the
> car, but it wasn't noticeable with automatic climate
> control.
>
> That makes me wonder, on a cold morning
> I set the climate control for 78 F, could that be what
> they are talking about on TV, I used to set it at 74.
Nar, that's just you getting older.
Well know effect with nursing homes, the geriatrics
feel the cold much more than everyone else.
You see it with little kids in spades, they're happy to go
swimming at temperatures no sane adult will swim at.
Its basically changes to the metabolic rate.
>> It will either be starvation, war, or a fast spreading
>> new disease, but something WILL happen.
> It always has, but the conditions that are a problem today is almost
> total reliance on the commercial sector for space heating, and in
> cold country, that can be a big problem at any moment.
Not really.
> A least with a big house, when things get really cold and
> there is no electric, oil, or natural gas, one or two rooms
> might be enough wood to last the rest of the winter when
> it will be warm enough to start walking south. :-)
You'd be a lot better warming yourself by whipping yourself.
Dont have to move then.
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