douglaschick21's Blog

It might be warming and the ice melting; however, if it happens, it happens. I believe that Al Gore and his buddies are somewhat dingy and the situation is not dire.

Yes, the ice is melting, DUH. We have the satellite images of how thin it has gotten and how much has melted away. Is it the Earth "shedding its skin"? Probably, but we have "sped up the process" by adding carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at a greater rate than would have occurred normally. Does anyone care? Evidently not, because they are not likely to be alive when Florida is underwater. But, as DW45 said, our great-grandkids are going to have a huge mess to live with. It comes from people not caring about anything more than what is going to happen today. Guns as part of the equation? I don't think so, more like the landfills full of decaying material that will take hundreds of thousands of years to decay, and are emitting the gases. Yes, car emission systems today are "better" than 20 years ago, but there are still those vehicles on the road. Companies are still polluting the air. Didn't you hear that Davie and Forsythe Counties are listed as some of the most polluted counties in the country? They said it will take 20 years to correct the problems. So, what do people today care, when they feel they won't be alive to deal with the effects???

I started driving in 1975 and there was very little traffic on the road and it was a joy to drive as I am a car nut I love cars. Then as I started to teach my children to drive I felt sad for them because of how many people were on the road and how they would deliberately try to cause wrecks by hitting their brakes and stopping hoping that someone would hit them so they would get a law suit. Is global warming real well common sense tells me there are way more people on this planet than ever before and burning fossil fuels is the life line of the human race so you can let your petty label war of liberals cloud your thinking if you want to but common sense dictates that we are affecting this planet in a not so positive way! IMHO

area is at its greatest since 1966. The newspaper cites the one exception — Western Europe, which had, until the weekend when temperatures plunged to as low as -10 C in some places, been basking in unseasonably warm weather.

Around the world, vast areas have been buried under some of the heaviest snowfalls in decades. Central and southern China, the United States, and Canada were hit hard by snowstorms In China, snowfall was so heavy that over 100,000 houses collapsed under the weight of snow.

Jerusalem, Damascus, Amman, and northern Saudi Arabia report the heaviest falls in years and below-zero temperatures. In Afghanistan, snow and freezing weather killed 120 people. Even Baghdad had a snowstorm, the first in the memory of most residents.

AFP news reports icy temperatures have just swept through south China, stranding 180,000 people and leading to widespread power cuts just as the area was recovering from the worst weather in 50 years, the government said Monday. The latest cold snap has taken a severe toll in usually temperate Yunnan province, which has been struck by heavy snowfalls since Thursday, a government official from the provincial disaster relief office told AFP.

Twelve people have died there, state Xinhua news agency reported, and four remained missing as of Saturday.

An ongoing record-long spell of cold weather in Vietnam's northern region, which started on Jan. 14, has killed nearly 60,000 cattle, mainly bull and buffalo calves, local press reported Monday. By Feb. 17, the spell had killed a total of 59,962 cattle in the region, including

If global warming gets any worse we'll all freeze to death.

The conversion from Fahrenheit to Celsius is: C= 5/9(F - 32) (just happen to be in college math right now), LOL!!! And, DW45, you are right; some people are real "wusses" if they can't handle 21 degree weather! Sure, that is cold, but I am sure that it was the "low temperature" and it warmed right back up when the sun came up! I don't think those are very cold temperatures compared to what the "Ice Regions" are supposed to have constantly very low cold ( like 40 below zero). Any how, the fact remains that Greenland is "splitting in half" because of the ice there (glacier or whatever). Perhaps it was once actually "green lands" and will soon be again!