Effort underway to suspend California's global-warming law

[Ronbo]

Originally Posted by Wes Tausend

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Normally, the oceanic evaporation on earth occurs at a steady state as some heat from the Sun stays and some is radiated away. That means that we always have the same overall rainfall, but if one area has excess, another will experience drought.

The greenhouse effect interferes with, and restricts, radiation, keeping more heat in the lower atmosphere, near the ocean.

As the surface temperature of the planet warms, it will increase the amount of oceanic evaporation. This will result is more precipitation, more rain, more snow and probably more violent physics, something like a kettle of water boiling faster as the heat is turned up.

The overall precipitation will not only rise. It may also cause a snowball effect as increased water vapor in the atmosphere adds to the greenhouse effect. The eventual resultant ice age is a real condition, unless one were to believe that it, too, is a contrived hoax. Nobody is sure how fast it will procede, or which factor is most important, but procede it will. The contention is that humans don't or do cause some of it.

Has anyone thought to ask why it is so important that the public not reduce use of carbon products besides empowering the middle east? Who is endlessly funding this anti-science campaign?

What a dry and humorless post I have made.
Sorry.

Wes

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While true that alternative "clean" sources should be explored, we also have to realize that right now they are fantasies (like global warming) that don't exist. However our energy needs are very real and like it or not burning fossil fuels has no equal at this time. Putting everything on hold while we wait for some "magic" to happen, or worse subsidizing non-viable solutions like ethenol in gasoline needs to stop, now.

Hydroelectric and geo-thermal is about the only viable "clean" source but it's geographically limited in use. Nuke power was regulated to death by idiots like Jane Fonda.

People also never consider where all this plastic we now use comes from.... OIL!

Bring back glass bottles, wash and re-use them...
Bring back paper grocery bags...
Have people burn the trash that doesn't need to go to the land fill...
Walk to the neiborhood corner store instead of driving to the Mega mart...
Build stuff that can be repaired again...

Funny how today's "enviromentally concerned" crowd generates ten times the mess previous generations did. "Re-use it" has been replaced with "Recycle it". No wonder financial resposibility dissapeared with the current crowd.