Official Global Warming thread (merged)

#6,901
#6,901
K-town Vol Fan said:
Its embarassing you might be brainwashed to the idea that coal doesnt hurt the environment. The sooner it dies the better off we'll be in the long run.
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I am well aware of the advantages and disadvantages of coal, but again I promise it will never completely ideas I stated previously. I can see the individuals on here who want the complete use of coal exterminated don't understand all of coals abilities.
 
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K-town Vol Fan said:
Its embarassing you might be brainwashed to the idea that coal doesnt hurt the environment. The sooner it dies the better off we'll be in the long run.
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A whole region of this country will die with mindsets like this. You want to know what shutting the mines down do to a whole state? Ask that liberal a$$hole Terry McAuliffe why Virginia is begging for volunteers to clean rest areas and mow medians. Ask Terry why when McDonald left Virginia was in the black now after years of his dictatorship on the coal industry this state is so far in the red at best it will take 10 years to get out, if ever. And off topic but why you got that d@ck on the phone ask him why he wished the Muslims happy Ramadan Friday but hasn't said one damn word about the vets.
 
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Decoration Day became Memorial Day. My grandparents always called it Decoration Day. And yes, we went with others in our small town to the cemetery days before Decoration Day to clean up the family plot and place flowers.
Come Decoration Day there would be a special service and folk would wander among those who had past on with their memories.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/civil-war-dead-honored-on-decoration-day
 
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#6,914
TN Ribs said:
Your post is what is really embarrassing. What don't you understand? Coal is dying, there are much cleaner options available. It's called progress!
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Ok Skippy lets see a list of cleaner options that can produce the same amount of energy as coal that is clean and doesn't hurt the environment.


Don't worry this test isn't timed and I'll throw out the lowest score so you can still pass.
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
Why?
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Because almost 40% of our population live near the coast. Pretty much every other first would country recognizes this problem and wants to tackle it. Sad we are lagging behind.

I mean we would be one of What, 197 countries to not be in the agreement lol

Although from my understanding the US can't leave the paris agreement in the next four years without Senate approval so I would be shocked if we actually do that
 
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Volsfaninva917 said:
How come when ice melts in my cup the water level doesn't rise? Asking for a friend
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SCHWEIGER: “Melting sea ice has no impact on sea level rise because it's already floating in the ocean.” Like a glass of ice water. ... So when it melts, the dark open ocean now absorbs sunlight and heats up, raising global temperatures, which in turn cause glaciers and ice sheets on land to melt further.
 

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ShowSomePride said:
Do you know the money that Miami puts into tackling rising ocean levels? They take it very seriously
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Exactly. They spend millions of dollar trying to divert the water.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, sea levels could rise by more than three feet by the end of this century. The United States Army Corps of Engineers projects that they could rise by as much as five feet; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts up to six and a half feet. According to Wanless, all these projections are probably low. In his office, Wanless keeps a jar of meltwater he collected from the Greenland ice sheet. He likes to point out that there is plenty more where that came from.

“Many geologists, we’re looking at the possibility of a ten-to-thirty-foot range by the end of the century,” he told me.

We got back into the car. Driving with one hand, Wanless shot pictures out the window with the other. “Look at that,” he said. “Oh, my gosh!” We’d come to a neighborhood of multimillion-dollar homes where the water was creeping under the security gates and up the driveways. Porsches and Mercedeses sat flooded up to their chassis.

“This is today, you know,” Wanless said. “This isn’t with two feet of sea-level rise.” He wanted to get better photos, and pulled over onto another side street. He handed me the camera so that I could take a picture of him standing in the middle of the submerged road. Wanless stretched out his arms, like a magician who’d just conjured a rabbit. Some workmen came bouncing along in the back of a pickup. Every few feet, they stuck a depth gauge into the water. A truck from the Miami Beach Public Works Department pulled up. The driver asked if we had called City Hall. Apparently, one of the residents of the street had mistaken the high tide for a water-main break.

To cope with its recurrent flooding, Miami Beach has already spent something like a hundred million dollars. It is planning on spending several hundred million more. Such efforts are, in Wanless’s view, so much money down the drain. Sooner or later—and probably sooner—the city will have too much water to deal with. Even before that happens, Wanless believes, insurers will stop selling policies on the luxury condos that line Biscayne Bay. Banks will stop writing mortgages.
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Just because youll be dead by the time Miami and other cities on the coast are under water doesn't mean we shouldnt do anything about it.

Idk how some people can be so short-sighted and simple minded.
 
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Volsfaninva917 said:
A whole region of this country will die with mindsets like this. You want to know what shutting the mines down do to a whole state? Ask that liberal a$$hole Terry McAuliffe why Virginia is begging for volunteers to clean rest areas and mow medians. Ask Terry why when McDonald left Virginia was in the black now after years of his dictatorship on the coal industry this state is so far in the red at best it will take 10 years to get out, if ever. And off topic but why you got that d@ck on the phone ask him why he wished the Muslims happy Ramadan Friday but hasn't said one damn word about the vets.
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People can find new jobs. If the US would get serious about wind and solar, perhaps they could even find jobs in those fields. We cant keep destroying the earth just because some people will be out of work. So who cares if VA is in the red for 10 years. Small price to pay when we are talking about the future of the earth.
 
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