I’ll probably be sorry, but let me throw William a bone, in the interest of fostering «strike»frothing«/strike» discussion…

As in previous climate changes, over the millennia, good things have emerged from cyclic climate changes. After all, if the Earth were still in it’s ‘original’ form, we would not find oxygen…the formative atmosphere was methane, ammonia, water and hydrogen. Given the earth is 4.5 B-B-Billion years old, oxygen didn’t even become much of an atmospheric component until around 2 or so Billion years in. Nice climate, that.

A short 65 million years ago, an asteroid impact may have eliminated those pesky dinosaurs, making way for us man-imals to proliferate. Since, climate changes have honed our evolution to our current egoistical state of big-brained morons who actually think -we- can change the world, significantly, either physically or evolutionarily. We’ve had this ‘capability’ for, oh, what? 100, 150 years?

In another 65 million years, our fossilized ‘records’ will puzzle whatever succeeds us as we succeeded the dinosaurs, and the old gal ‘Earth’ will never know the difference, no matter which species rode her around in orbit for such short time spans.

My point: don’t be so impressed or alarmed with whatever miniscule role we humans manage to play in Earth’s history. It will be written over. Many times.

Top Ten ‘Good’ Things about Global Warming!

10. Less snow and ice to torment drivers. Good for Nashville, no?

9. Don’t have to buy/wear those bulky parkas. Improving the looks of winter fashions world-wide.

8. Minot, ND, won’t be an Air Force punishment area. “Why not Minot?” can finally become “Minot! Why not? It’s cooler there!”

7. Won’t hurt our economy (except for those poor coastal cities that might get a few inches more of water…but that can be turned into an attraction…New Orleans, the U.S.’s Venice?)

6. Fewer diseases spread amongst people in closed/heated (crowded) public areas. Since we have adequate sanitation, hot-climate diseases won’t matter much to U.S. Open the damned windows year-round!

5. Longer growing seasons, for those green plants we eat. We need more foodstuffs, not only to eat but for bio-fuels. Given the overpopulation.

4. CO2 is required for plants to thrive. See #5.

3. Reduced heating bills for poor people in northern cities. Chavez wouldn’t have to supply low-cost heating oil to ‘his’ people in New York.

2. Ahhh, the longer beachwear seasons! And, longer beaches!

1. Boating season is extended! Winterizaton happens…today…(can’t we get just a couple more weeks?)

Could one reference any established faith in the statement “I am anti-blank” other than “atheist” and not draw some direct criticism? I don’t think I am off-base in, once again, implying that there is a double standard in play.

Personally, I don’t mind if my positions are attacked because, on a level field, I am able to defend them.

Romney’s God

Romney is a god? LMAO. (see how important capitalization is to grammar)

Sorry couldn’t resist.

An apostrophe is used to indicate possession.

* For most singular nouns, the ending ’s is added; e.g., the cat’s whiskers.

Or Romney’s God.

hehe. It sucks when you have to explain the joke. An apostrophe followed by a s can also be used as a contraction replacing the word “is.” (eg. Santa’s fat). By capitalizing the word god, you made it a proper noun, but doesn’t make sense in your statement. You used “Romney’s” as a modifier to distinguish one god from any other god, whcih doesn’t make sense if you are using a proper noun as no such distinction would be necessary.

“Romney’s god” = the god that belongs to Romney

“Romney’s God” = “Romney is God.”

Relax, I’m the king of typos. I was just messing with you since you made such a big deal out of capitalizing the word “god.” It doesn’t always make grammatical sense to do so.

Sorry, but I’ve been offline. Now that I’m back, suffice to say I’ve removed a lot of the cruel, bigoted and meanspirited comments from this thread.

FYI,

There were some taken out which weren’t problematic in and of themselves but did refer back to the problem ones. So, they’re gone too.

Is there anyone here other than me who would rather have the “cruel, bigoted and mean-spirited comments” left to stand or fall on their merits rather than being subject to censorship?

A short 65 million years ago, an asteroid impact may have eliminated those pesky dinosaurs, making way for us man-imals to proliferate.

Serr8d, I’m assuming you are refering to our primate ancestors here, since ‘we humans’ weren’t around until about 2.5 million yrs ago. Human history has not seen a global warming event like the one that is occuring now, we haven’t been around long enough. This event is unfolding as an extinction level event (not for us, but millions of species) similar to the Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum.

So this is a preview of the nice, safe mental cocoonism leftist proggs want for their touchy-feely world?

Global warming isn’t the only problem we have here, methinks…

William, species that can’t adapt to the changes in the world’s climate are doomed to extinction. That’s basic biology. We can’t save them all, no matter how hard we would like to play GOD, our efforts will prove to be futile.

Who knows? We may be in line for extinction as well. Humans are just another species, after all, and are subject to the same rules as other animals.

Right?

So this is a preview of the nice, safe mental cocoonism leftist proggs want for their touchy-feely world?

No. This is a community blog designed to foster good relationships, a community blog which plainly states that we do not tolerate personal attacks.

Is there anyone here other than me who would rather have the “cruel, bigoted and mean-spirited comments” left to stand or fall on their merits rather than being subject to censorship?

If they make those comments at your blog, feel free to leave them up. This blog has a very clearly stated purpose and policy. Personal attacks are deleted. Period. End. Full Stop.

New Orleans, the U.S.’s Venice actually, from looking at the 100 meter rise maps at this site , I think Memphis is a better candidate. The Big Easy might be a good place for a Water World attraction, though.

No, Katherine Coble, there were no ‘personal’ attacks. There were posts that made you feel uncomfortable.

Don’t you know that when your own views are used to crimp the much larger and more complex interactions that make up conversations that you find ‘uncomfortable’, that level of narrow censorship is in and of itself questionable and distasteful? I could see it as a personal attack, if I were thin-skinned.

What you failed to notice was that much air was cleared, and we had moved on. Unresolved issues from a previous thread (where were you then?) were aired. I was fine with our interaction, here.

But you felt uncomfortable, didn’t you? Maybe some nice Oprah, to air out your feelings?

“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”
— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

Who knows? We may be in line for extinction as well. Humans are just another species, after all, and are subject to the same rules as other animals.

Right?

Only the soulless leftists (any one left of Ted Nugent that is) but technically they aren’t human anyway. Some of the sneakier ones may actually claim to believe in Gawd but TrueAmericans™ can tell they are lying.

…From Music City Blandness, a thread that contained some back-and-forth on the subject of Gays and Religion was gutted by Katherine Coble…

Well Katherine, it looks like your cover is blown. Despite sneakily trying to disguise yourself as a Christian libertarian, your willingness to tolerate the homosexual abomination has revealed that you are apparently just another godless commie.

Of course, your voter profile will need to be updated to reflect this development.

Where are the attacks? I wanna see ‘em!

I like responding to personal attacks.

While we’re sitting around the campfire singing Kumbaya and quoting J. S. Mill,

The ne plus ultra of wickedness is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.

Yea, check out my last post - religious compassionate conservatism on parade

Oh my God, it may explode…

http://nujournal.net/core.pdf

So tell me William, how many so called experts are like Dr. Tom?

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-25,GGLJ:en&q=Dr+Tom+J%2e+Chalko

I laugh at people who in their supreme arrogance truly believe that humankind can control either climate or weather. They assign to us powers we do not have because their egos make slaves of their reason.

Wow, Number9 found a way to combine an ad hominem, a straw man, and a red herring into one comment.

I laugh at people who in their supreme arrogance truly believe that humankind can control either climate or weather.

Not as arrogant or proposterourous as the large % of people who believe god created this universe as mankind’s playground and that we were created in ‘god’s image’ … how’s that for arrogance?

If you read my blog post, you might learn something. I guess though, we’ll always have people like #9 who obviously don’t understand the science and argue on the basis of energy industry agendas, lock step conservative ideology, or fear of gov’t control and sacrifice.