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This is what needs to replace "global Warming"
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Anonymous
| No reason to take action on global warming so long as there's some other (any other) threat out there. In fact, we should all stop wiping our asses, since the Earth may get hit by an asteroid tomorrow. |
Anonymous
It's not "The" Threat. If you want something to keep you up, it's chemical and biological weapons. The chemical compounds are simple to create and simple to deploy. Biological weapons range in difficulty from college to a graduate degree with lab experience, depending on the particular biological. Deployment is a little tougher, but you can do a lot of damage without too much expertise, especially if it is an infectious disease. Nuclear is a whole other game. Even Iran is having a tough time enriching enough material. And the engineering to turn it into a nuclear explosive device is pretty demanding. Dirty bombs are much easier but much less effective. We have actually been studying the problem since the 70's. We have been working to identify and take off the market enriched uranium and plutonium, because this is the hardest thing to produce. The russians put hundreds of small nuclear generators out into remote places, and we are trying to clean up all of those. We chase down every backpack nuke rumor we get. We have been paying scientists all over the world and especially Soviet physicists, for no other reason than to keep them productive so they won't be forced by desperation to take a job with a terrorist organization. We have monitors set up to detect radiation that might leak from a small nuclear device. Did you not remember how after 9/11 they stopped bridge traffic for half a day, because someone was driving some medical waste across it? The reason that happened was because we monitor this. I'm not trying to say that our government has everything under control. Nuclear weapons are a risky business, and the biggest risk in fact is the lack of security across our (and Russian) tactical nukes in the European theater. Because all of the challenges in a nuclear attack are on the production side. If you steal a weapon, you have it all. But the idea that somehow this possibility has eluded our government, or that we do nothing about it, is silly. Don't get your news from the shopping aisle at the grocery store. |
Anonymous
I thought not wiping your ass means less cabon emissions making toilet paper. Wouldn't that be good? |
Anonymous
| Isn't it "Climate Change" now, just in case the earth is cooling? |
Anonymous
yes, and climate always changes (see ice age vs. climate when dinosaurs roamed the earth) therefore "climate change" equals "normal". |
Anonymous
It doesn't matter what you label it. The term is just the shorthand that the public uses to refer to it. It does not affect the science behind it. It never has. |
Anonymous
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"Climate change" makes more sense as a general description because, as general warming occurs, there tend to be greater local variations, such as unusual snows, that confuse people who can only hold one idea in their heads at a time.
No offense intended to our own simplistic thinker, who has shown the capability to think of Obama's smell AND his non-existent birth certificate, as well as the threat of nuclear bombs being smuggled into the country. Or perhaps these are three one-topic thinkers? In any case, I appreciate the entertainment you provide. |
Anonymous
| Hey Obama smelling terrible is not my problem. It's michelle and the kids who complain about it. And the reporters on his plane. The flies like it though, so there is some balance. I just think it makes the country look low budget to have the president always swatting at flies. And yes smelling horrible is a simplistic problem . |
Anonymous
No it's a simple problem. What is simplistic is your harping on it in all kinds of contexts where it is totally irrelevant. And what is absolutely stupid is people like me wasting time responding. Sometimes I really hate myself. But my one consolation is that I am contributing to somebody's happiness -- even if that somebody is an ass. I'm sure your mother loves you, so I feel my good deed is worth something. BTW,  .
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Anonymous
| What I don't get is why he likes making people think he's an idiot. It's not just the liberals, either. He's got hangups that other conservatives don't understand either. |
Anonymous
Intelligence is independent of political outlook, and personality quirks are independent of both. I knew a guy who was one of the best teachers you'd ever hope to see, ambitious and intelligent. But he liked making weird phone calls from his office. You never know what odd little things lurk within us. Our strange friend here may be a fine, normal person when he's not indulging this streak of strangeness. Or maybe he's just the nut he appears to be. |
Anonymous
Yes, I did not mean idiot as in he has no intelligence. I probably should have said nutjob. |
Anonymous
| Most peolpe don't like things or people that smell bad. Except apparently, liberals. |
Anonymous
And cheese lovers. |
Anonymous
And farmers. |