Earth day celebration

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FYI, for my 20th year running, I celebrated Earth Day [4/22] by turning on every light inside and around my property for five minutes just to snub Mr. Al Gore, the Inconvenient Truther, whose AlGoreGooeyJuice to replace petroleum I await with panting breath. Without it, net zero ain't happening, my friends, no mater how long at hard you howl at the moon that claimate change [yes, that is spelled correctly] is an ongoing, existential threat to life on Earth. Bullshyte. Tell me the cause of Snowball Earth, and how, in spite of covering the Earth in ice, volcanism continued, and that for the last 28 years [since 1997, when NOAA began measuring Earth temperature - surely by using all the same continuously calibrated equipment with well-trained operators who always use the same measurement technique at all the same measuring stations all over the Earth, and all the equipment used is accurate to 10x the measurement specification tolerance [all the foregoing is necessary, or your data is insufficient to demonstrate that those 28 annual measurements all demonstrate continuous warming of the Earth...
Bullshyte.  NOAA began measuring Earth temperature annually from 1970 - 55 years ago [through 2024] of those 55 years, there is a general trend of rising temp, but actuary measurements show 28 years above the trend and 27 below it. That means 49% of the measurements are cooler and 51% are warmer. That is, statistically, an indication of normal variation, not spiking hot temperature. 1.1º C rise in temperature in those 55  years. Whoop-di-doo.
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FYI, for my 20th year running, I celebrated Earth Day [4/22] by turning on every light inside and around my property for five minutes just to snub Mr. Al Gore, the Inconvenient Truther, whose AlGoreGooeyJuice to replace petroleum I await with panting breath.
Mild way to protest. It won’t hurt the climate or take away the Nobel prize from Al Gore.
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Nobel prize from Al Gore.
No need, people like Gore and Obama took nobility away from the prize.

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I never really understood people who violate nature which gave them life. Really, I prefer clean rivers and clean air over factories, coal burning and concrete.
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Conservatives actually do try to conserve natural resources. It's in the name while liberals use "green policies" to grab more government control and take power from the people
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@Shila
take away the Nobel prize from Al Gore.
AlGore's Nobel Prize was a political certainty, but a scientific travesty, jut as his docudrivel Oscar was a political certainty, but a scientific failure. 140 million years ago, the first mammals dealt with an infinitely worse climate, having virtually the same physiology that we do. Were they uniquely to  blame for their existential climate change? 
No, and we are not, either. AlGore is an an ignorant arse.
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Give me solid proof those things are an existential threat, then maybe you have a point. Without it, you got bupkis. Have any idea how bad things were when extreme volcanism ruled the Earth? No, you do not. I don't, either, just that it was so much worse than now. AlGore's "existentialism is a cake walk by comparison.
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Very true, usually. 
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Give me solid proof those things are an existential threat
I never claimed that polluted rivers are existential threat. I just want clean rivers and clean air.
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I celebrated Earth
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It will always boggle my mind on how gore could have just gone silently on with his life with the understanding that if he won, maybe it wouldn't have been as much of a shit show that Bush was.

But no, he had to throw that favorability away for liberal brownie points.
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And I want "climate science" to grow up and stop being a pedantic child. For being such a young science [about 200 years old], it seems full of itself for no valid reason.
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Hey

Some older people fear and dislike change.

Whereas I try to run with it...No choice really.

So things either happen for a reason or not...Fact is we don't know.


So, we have become dependent upon electricity.

We endured the industrial revolution with it's coal burning smog and it's polluted rivers.

And also have become dependent on powered transport, and have endured it's undeniable pollution.


To deny the known effects of pollution is to bury ones head in the sand, as some older folk prefer to do.

So what.

None of us are here for more than a nanosecond of universal time.

Just do what you think is good and sensible, and in a hundred years from now new old folk will be doing the same.

And you and I will have disappeared, either into a hole in the ground, or in a puff of smoke.

Along with Al, your personal whipping boy.
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FYI, for my 20th year running, I celebrated Earth Day [4/22] by turning on every light inside and around my property for five minutes just to snub Mr. Al Gore, the Inconvenient Truther, whose AlGoreGooeyJuice to replace petroleum I await with panting breath. Without it, net zero ain't happening, my friends, no mater how long at hard you howl at the moon that claimate change [yes, that is spelled correctly] is an ongoing, existential threat to life on Earth. Bullshyte. Tell me the cause of Snowball Earth, and how, in spite of covering the Earth in ice, volcanism continued, and that for the last 28 years [since 1997, when NOAA began measuring Earth temperature - surely by using all the same continuously calibrated equipment with well-trained operators who always use the same measurement technique at all the same measuring stations all over the Earth, and all the equipment used is accurate to 10x the measurement specification tolerance [all the foregoing is necessary, or your data is insufficient to demonstrate that those 28 annual measurements all demonstrate continuous warming of the Earth...
Bullshyte.  NOAA began measuring Earth temperature annually from 1970 - 55 years ago [through 2024] of those 55 years, there is a general trend of rising temp, but actuary measurements show 28 years above the trend and 27 below it. That means 49% of the measurements are cooler and 51% are warmer. That is, statistically, an indication of normal variation, not spiking hot temperature. 1.1º C rise in temperature in those 55  years. Whoop-di-doo.
That’s nothing, there’s a guy in our neighborhood who doesn’t believe in the moon landing who, on the anniversary of the moonwalk every year, runs around naked in the back yard and howls at the moon.

My friend knows a flat earther that has a ceremony where he burns a globe in effigy every summer and winter solstice.

Of all the kooks, I think the science denier kooks are the most entertaining.


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All you say is true. It's just that pollution, as bad as we are by expressing it, is not the existential threat the claimant alarmists say icy is, because they don't know, either. I claim  neither volcanism nor snowball Earth was ultimately Earth's existential threat before man existed.  I think Earth's only existential threats are her sun, going nova, or a rogue planet or asteroid, and we will not cause them, either.
As for AI, I wish we would remember that without human input, they express the intelligence of a stone. It does not innovate, it merely vomits on command. It may do it more quickly than we do, but fast is relative. At one time, 4 mph was our top speed. Now, it is more. 
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Ahhh - flat earth. That's a good false claim, and I've personally experienced the proof over a hundred times. I was once in Paris a couple of years ago, another friend in NYC, and another in Rio, in mid-December about one week from Winter solstice. We were all looking at a night sky, but, by telephone conference we determined we were each looking at a clear night. If we were on a flat earth, we should have all seen the same constellations, but each of us were actually looking at different constellations. The other experience was a flight from NYC to Madrid. The pilot said our altitude was about 36,000 feet. I could see the curved horizon over the Atlantic. No, the glass  port I looked through was not warped, or straight lines on the ground would have been warped. Nope, they were straight. That can only happen on a sphere [oh, okay, an oblate spheroid], and I've experience that view on flights from US to Asia and Europe, and back over a hundred times.  Earth is not flat. Nor is any other body we see in space. Not unless all of them [millions of them close enough  to see their shape] have their poles in geosynchronous orientation to celestial north, but not one planet, nor moon, nor the sun are just in our solar system, let alone anywhere else.
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I celebrated Earth
According to Elon Musk the planet should be called water and not earth because all aliens can see is water.