Flashermac Posted July 12, 2008 Report Share Posted July 12, 2008 Most of Bangkok's parks were either established 70 to 80 years ago or are on gifts of royal property. The local capitalists regard green space as a waste of money. Who needs oxygen anyway? p.s. "Trees cause pollution." - R. Reagan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh_Hoy Posted July 12, 2008 Report Share Posted July 12, 2008 I'm nearly 60 years old and the parts of the planet I've known in that time have changed beyond recognition. The dry bits and the wet bits.The animals are gone, the fish are gone and the trees are gone... Add a few years to that "60", dude. The animals and plants have only mutated over your lifetime to the point that you don't recognize them. HH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogueyam Posted July 14, 2008 Report Share Posted July 14, 2008 The north pole is going to be ice free soon.... Which part of this don't you understand? Maybe, maybe not. Here's another take on the facts. Click through to the source for the embedded links: Sunday, July 13, 2008 A chilling tale from North EU Referendum.blogspot For his third tale today, Booker takes on the warmists full-frontal (again), pointing out that there is nothing that "true believers" like to use more to sustain their faith than a fear that Arctic ice may soon vanish. Google News last week, he writes, showed 492 articles promoting this scare (now standing at 1,926), after Arctic sea-ice had last September shrunk to its lowest level since satellite records began in 1979. What the articles didn't tell us (although it can be seen from the Cryosphere Today website) is that ice-cover last winter rose back at a record rate. Although it is again in summer retreat, there are now 700,000 square kilometres more ice than at this time last year â?? pictured above. As global temperatures decline, the warmists may have to wait rather longer for that ice finally to melt away. Yet, it was less than three weeks ago that The Independent was confidently reporting that, for the first time in human history, "ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year." Interestingly, the "warmist" online journal Science Daily is now getting round the inconvenient truth that the ice retreat has slowed by reporting: "Summer Arctic Sea ice expected to be among lowest on record." This is rather like that old Cold War joke, which had Kennedy and Khrushchev competing in a 100yd race. Kennedy, the younger man, won easily but when Pravda came to report the result, it had Khrushchev coming second and Kennedy second from last. As with the old, in the new "Cold War", anything goes. Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogueyam Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 It may be time for the hippies to turn those frowns upside down! Once the Arctic ice is gone, that's when the party starts! Oil Survey Says Arctic Has Riches By JAD MOUAWAD New York Times July 24, 2008 The Arctic may contain as much as a fifth of the worldâ??s yet to-be-discovered oil and natural gas reserves, the United States Geological Survey said Wednesday as it unveiled the largest-ever survey of petroleum resources north of the Arctic Circle. Oil companies have long suspected that the Arctic contained substantial energy resources, and have been spending billions recently to get their hands on tracts for exploration. As melting ice caps have opened up prospects that were once considered too harsh to explore, a race has begun among Arctic nations, including the United States, Russia, and Canada, for control of these resources. The geological agencyâ??s survey largely vindicates the rising interest. It suggests that most of the yet-to-be found resources are not under the North Pole but much closer to shore, in regions that are not subject to territorial dispute. â??For a variety of reasons, the possibility of oil and gas exploration in the Arctic has become much less hypothetical than it once was,â? Donald L. Gautier, the chief geologist for the survey, said during a news conference Wednesday. â??Most of the resources are on the continental shelf in areas already under territorial claims.â? Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faustian Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 Great, more use of finite resources Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lazyphil Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 puts off the nuclear march we so desperatly need to take place. although uraniam is finite too i guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 Supposedly there's enough to supply the world's oil for THREE YEARS. Then what??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USVirgin Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 I've been watching that reality show on The Discovery Channel where those guys fish for crabs in the Bearing Sea. And, ya know, I really wish the fucking thing would melt because I hate it when my favorite boats run into ice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lazyphil Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 i'm going to by an axe tomorrow.....i know some woods nearby, get stocked up and some great functional training to boot. win win situation !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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