Tornado updates.

[Esco!]

Here's a less lethal experiment:
Go to home depot and get a $3.00 5 gallon bucket
Fill the bucket half way with water.
Every time you have to take a piss, pee in the bucket
Every time you have to piss, take a glass of water from the bucket.
After a week drink the glass from the bucket. it will be about 90% urine

Thats top-notch science there, tboy

 

[tboy]

Thats top-notch science there, tboy

But it is a simple example of what we're doing to the planet.

As for your trees cleaning the air: what if we've cut down all the trees? What cleans the air then? (and before you say another word, we HAVE cut down just about 90% of the trees in southern ontario so don't even go there).

Ok, here's another simple experiment:
You have 1 cleaner in a 10 x 10 room. You have 5 guys bringing in buckets of dirt. How long before the room is full? This is a perfect example of the "load" we're expecting the plant life to clean. We've reduced the amount of "cleaners" yet increased (exponentially) the amount of pollutants.

I think the problem is people see the world as an infinite resource, but it isn't. It is finite. There is only so much we can do before the system breaks down. I mean seriously, we TRUCK our garbage to another country because we've run out of room here, doesn't that tell you something?

I just thought of a good example of the human race's ignorance:

The buffalo. Back in the day when they/we moved west we saw great herds of buffalo. Millions of them. So mankind went out and said "hey look at all dem dare buffalo, we can shoot as many as we want, lookit dem all"

A few years later the same people said "hey wait, where all dem buffalo"???

 

[Esco!]

But it is a simple example of what we're doing to the planet.

As for your trees cleaning the air: what if we've cut down all the trees? What cleans the air then? (and before you say another word, we HAVE cut down just about 90% of the trees in southern ontario so don't even go there).

I agree actually, we need to cut down less trees and plant more

 

[tboy]

I agree actually, we need to cut down less trees and plant more

That's it, it's called sustained/managed forests....yet we're still cutting them down faster than we're replacing them. Hence why steel studs etc are becoming more and more popular as framing on new house construction.....I see the waste first hand. The average house produces about 100 tons of waste......(most of which is 100% recyclable)

 

[The Options Menu]

LOL....I knew Al Gore was a hobbyist, I didnt know he had a handle on HUBGFE though :tongue:

I'm probably a fair bit further left on economic and social issues than Al Gore, but on the environment I'm actually more of a pragmatist. It's just that I happen to be stuck at the bottom of this giant gravity well we call Earth... As long as I and my descendants are stuck here maintaining a reasonable biodiversity and basic habitability should be a priority. (Feel free to kill baby seals and consume resources, just do this stuff in a way that maintains habitability and biodiversity, and err on the side of caution.)

 

[blissful]

I am truly enjoying this
As for the weather, can not do anything about it. Reality, every creature, human or not will eventually become extinct. Or something from the stars will get us.

I like the storm so far wish it was like Ottawa a few years back.:he:

 

[Dan]

Bliss from now on any bad weather we have to endure is all your fault!!:grrrrrr:

Global warming is all Esco and Chunky's fault!:grrrrrr:

All firings of city workers are Tboy's fault. arty:

 

[blissful]

Bliss from now on any bad weather we have to endure is all your fault!!:grrrrrr:

Global warming is all Esco and Chunky's fault!:grrrrrr:

All firings of city workers are Tboy's fault. arty:

I love Mother Nature when she becomes Bitchy PMS or what?

 

[Cycleguy007]

Hmmmm....

Hmmmm....

Bliss from now on any bad weather we have to endure is all your fault!!:grrrrrr:

Global warming is all Esco and Chunky's fault!:grrrrrr:

All firings of city workers are Tboy's fault. arty:

I'm just glad I didn't blamed for anything this time!

 

[Esco!]

Pretty cool picture: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ows-Northern-Hemisphere-covered-snow-ice.html

 

[tboy]

That IS a cool picture....and not to bring this up again, but kind of looks like a map they used in the movie I referenced

 

[Esco!]

Supposed to go down to -10 Celsius in Dallas tonight: https://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/ustx0327

Thats highly unusual for that city

 

[tboy]

^^^ No shit. I was working in Dallas a few years ago and was talking with one of the guys I was working with. We were talking about bad drivers and I said "imagine if they got snow"?? He said: they got a storm a few years ago that dumped an inch down. They had 500 accidents in the first 15 minutes lol........

 

[Cycleguy007]

^^^ No shit. I was working in Dallas a few years ago and was talking with one of the guys I was working with. We were talking about bad drivers and I said "imagine if they got snow"?? He said: they got a storm a few years ago that dumped an inch down. They had 500 accidents in the first 15 minutes lol........

Heard from our friends in Dallas yesterday... they've had ice storms, and HUGE power problems! With rolling brown outs, and even 20-30 black outs 2-3 times a day the last couple days! :shock:

They are simply not equipped to deal with these freezing temps... and if it snows even a little? All hell breaks loose! :gasp:

 

[tboy]

^^^ That's why (when I travelled) I had bragging rights over most states. We not only get the freezing cold, searing heat, extreme humidity, tons of snow, but also high winds, the odd tornado and even the odd earth quake. Do we fold up and hide under the covers? Nope...we deal with it because:

We Are Canadian........

 

[Maurice Boscorelli]

^^^ That's why (when I travelled) I had bragging rights over most states. We not only get the freezing cold, searing heat, extreme humidity, tons of snow, but also high winds, the odd tornado and even the odd earth quake. Do we fold up and hide under the covers? Nope...we deal with it because:

We Are Canadian........

Amen eh.

 

[Cycleguy007]

Ya'll hit the bulls-eye!


On another note...

The Sun had a great word for describing the lack of "snowmageddon"...

They called it "snowverkill"!

 

[tboy]

snowverkill, now that's funny!!!

No wonder Montreal laughs at Toronto......shit I was up there years after Mayor Mel called in the army and they were STILL laughing about it.

Hell, even up here I still hear about it from time to time and what was that, 10 yrs ago? lol.....

 

[The Options Menu]

snowverkill, now that's funny!!!

No wonder Montreal laughs at Toronto......shit I was up there years after Mayor Mel called in the army and they were STILL laughing about it.

Yeah, they still mock us in Northern Ontario, the actual North, Quebec, the East Coast, and most of the Prairies over that as well. We're probably OK in the warm parts of BC though.

The good news is that Toronto is actually doing a better job of laughing at itself. And, from a family of many teachers, it's always good to remind parents that they aren't babysitters. Who knows, maybe this will get the 'action news' segments of the media to calm down a little as well? So, despite the disruption, maybe it will do some good.

 

[Esco!]

Good article today by Lorrie Goldstein on global warming:

Al Gore now claims severe snowstorms are all part of the global warming process. Only problem is he forgot to include that in his move 'Inconvenient Truth'. He conveniently added that theory later

As for Gore, if, as he argues, climate scientists have predicted for decades that global warming would make “snowstorms more severe” and lead to “colder winters,” why was there no mention of this in his “documentary,” An Inconvenient Truth?

It portrayed global warming exclusively as a phenomenon of steadily rising temperatures, expanding deserts, retreating glaciers and deadly heat waves

Something tells me Al Gore is just making shit up as he goes along