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[Rufus T. Firefly]

[HONDO74]

You two need to be locked in a closet with an insurance salesman for a few days...........human equivalent of tying to cats together by their tails and tossing them over a clothes line.

[Roy]

...Republicans could care less about the environment, as long as they can get their gasoline, fuel oil, coal and natural gas cheap.

It's Republicans who deny climate change, and/or deny that burning fossil fuels causes climate change, who are living in a fantasy world. We're all being disinformed by Big Oil, the way we were disinformed by Big Tobacco.

California is presently the 3rd largest oil producing state. It derives billions of dollars in revenue per year from oil and gas and it employees million of people who are dependent upon it.

All you have to do is shut it all down and then figure out how you are going to replace that revenue that provides California with many benefits. And find new employment for the millions of people that will be displaced.

California presently controls all the offshore oil rigs within its waters. No new oil lines into Cal and ships can't dock at the rigs and transport it to ports.

California is totally controlled by liberal democrats and can pass any agenda or legislation they want and your governor can use executive order for anything you want.

Jerry Brown used executive for California to be carbon free by 2045

Jobs are important, but nowhere near as important as sparing the planet the worst of the ravages of human-induced climate change. You need to have some understanding and appreciation of the truth, before you can make meaningful value judgements. And by truth, I don't mean merely what you want to believe, as many in our Christian culture teach.

[Roy]

...tying to cats together...

How do you get research papers published, with such spelling?

(I know...editing, editing, editing.)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

You two need to be locked in a closet with an insurance salesman for a few days...........human equivalent of tying to cats together by their tails and tossing them over a clothes line.

And do try the succulents,

[webenda]

You might read up on why oil companies are building their offshore oil platforms taller, these days:

http://graphics.latimes.com/oil-operations/

Thank you for the link, Roy.



So, they decided to change the platform height from 30 meters to 31 or 32 meters.

According to this internet article, < https://www.amnh.org/explore/ology/eart ... nder-water > sea level would rise about 70 meters if the world's ice all melted.

Back to the drawing board.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Cute stretching the photo..........

[Roy]

Yep. If we had been doing something in 1989, or 2015(when the article I linked was published), things might've been different. As it is, ice is apparently melting faster than previous predictions. And, if all the methane in permafrost goes into the atmosphere, we're going to have much worse problems.

But then, Christians are always looking forward to the end of the world. I have to wonder how their God will feel, about them deliberately destroying the world He loved.

[webenda]

Instead of a wall between Mexico and the USA maybe we should start building a 67-meter tall dike around the whole country.

And don't forget the water pumps to pump the rivers over the dike and into the ocean.

The World Ocean or Global Ocean is the interconnected system of Earth's oceanic waters, and comprises the bulk of the hydrosphere, covering 361,132,000 square kilometers of Earth's surface {Area: 139.4 million mi²}, with a total volume of roughly 1,332,000,000 cubic kilometers. Wikipedia


Ice caps, Glaciers, & Permanent snow: 5,773,000 cu mi (24,064,000 cu km)

Ocean area: 139,400,000 sq mi (361,132,000 sq km)

5,773,000 cu mi / 139,400,000 sq mi = 0.0414 mile (24,064,000 cu km / 361,132,000 sq km = 0.0666 kilometer)

0.0414 mile = 218 feet (0.066 6 kilometer = 66.6 meter)

[webenda]

In the meantime, while politicians argue over global warming, I am planning on moving to Mars.
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2017/05/c ... ve-on-mars

Mars is suffering from global warming too but a little more heat there would be welcome for us Martian Settlers.
https://skepticalscience.com/global-war ... ediate.htm

[HONDO74]

You two need to be locked in a closet with an insurance salesman for a few days...........human equivalent of tying to cats together by their tails and tossing them over a clothes line.

And do try the succulents,

Do those succulents go good with dark ale

[Roy]

Wayne, assuming you respect international borders, have you calculated how long a dyke that would require? We'd still need a lot of the Great Wall of Mexico - along with a lot of wall along the Canadian border(i.e., if Canada and Mexico don't build such a dyke).

Oh, don't forget Hawaii and Alaska!

[HONDO74]

But then, Christians are always looking forward to the end of the world. I have to wonder how their God will feel, about them deliberately destroying the world He loved.

Christianity is (31 percent) of all 6.9 billion people on Earth, Islam was second, 23 percent of the global population.

Islam is growing more rapidly than any other religion in the world, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center that says the religion will nearly equal Christianity by 2050 before eclipsing it around 2070, if current trends continue.

[webenda]

A note on this coming Martian summer heat.

[webenda]

Wayne, assuming you respect international borders, have you calculated how long a dyke that would require? We'd still need a lot of the Great Wall of Mexico - along with a lot of wall along the Canadian border(i.e., if Canada and Mexico don't build such a dyke).

Oh, don't forget Hawaii and Alaska!

Not my problem, I am leaving.