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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    There already IS flooding because of global warming, regardless of whether it is anthropogenic or not.
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    BS44325 wrote: »
    I know "bud" but that 3mm rise doesn't happen in a vacuum. Carbon emission's effect on temperature doesn't happen in a vacuum. That is why scientists are currently puzzled by the slow rate of temperature change relative to the increase in emissions. What science is learning (as science must be re-evaluated) is that there must be more at play then man's actions alone. One can believe that man contributes to climate change while also recognizing that unknown feedback mechanisms might also exist to counter that change. One can believe that man contributes to climate change while also recognizing that solar activity might move in an opposite direction thereby making our effects insignificant. Our world has cycled through cold and warm periods over millions of years and even though man's actions are real they may still be no match for other natural effects at play. So grab a parka "bud" cause the probabilities state that when this warm period is over another ice age will be headed our way.

    I agree with most of this.I still think both scenarios are created by the same variables.
  • BS44325
    BS44325 Posts: 6,124
    Sorry rgambs but where exactly IS this current global warming related flooding right now?
  • BS44325
    BS44325 Posts: 6,124
    Also rgambs where are we exactly on the cycles? Are we at the start of a warm period, the middle, or the end?
  • BS44325
    BS44325 Posts: 6,124
    Do I stay in the great lakes or do I move to florida? Your answers will guide my policy decisions.
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Well hell. I think we're gonna stay put in good old CA for now.

    Mudslides and earthquakes and drought, oh my!

    See you down in Arizona Bay >:/
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    A round on me everybody! I started trouble in the Lounge, my bad! Let's all kick back and get ready for the weekend, it should be here in... :-??
    Well it will come around here in a few days lol
    Cheers!
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • BS44325
    BS44325 Posts: 6,124
    I would like to personally apologize to everyone on the Train Car Lounge. I have been notified by BrianLux that discussing science in the lounge creates conflict. This is his lounge and he makes the rules. Again my deepest apologies for bringing conflict into this lounge and for the offense my scientific response to rgambs might have caused.
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    rgambs wrote: »
    A round on me everybody! I started trouble in the Lounge, my bad! Let's all kick back and get ready for the weekend, it should be here in... :-??
    Well it will come around here in a few days lol
    Cheers!
    No trouble at all from here, gambo. But yes, I'll take one...well, I AM having one :D

    BS, this thread's been a nice little haven for some of us. Hope you can help to keep it that way.
  • BS44325
    BS44325 Posts: 6,124
    edited February 2015
    Totally Hedo. I'm new to this lounge thing. Once again my bad. With time I will figure out the rules of what one can say and where they can say it. Cheers indeed!
    Post edited by BS44325 on
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    OK, I'll humor you on that, BS.

    Cheers back, genuinely.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMSW7gwMCcc
  • PJfanwillneverleave1
    PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    Sometimes it is best when others speak for you in the lounge
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFlBM60x4OI
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    kce8 wrote: »
    oftenreading wrote: »
    Just for fun this morning, a little video of orcas giving themselves belly massages on the pebbles at a beach near Campbell River, about 3 hours north of Victoria.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/02/02/bc-orcas-beach-rubbing-video_n_6587324.html

    Wow, ....this is what I dream about since maybe 1990 !!!
    I never saw something like this or even just one Orca and I think I would have not being able to get out just one word in this situation...Dreaming about travelling to Vencouver Island or any other place in the world just to see Orcas in free nature...I hope someday this will become true! They are so beautiful - the most admirable animal for me!

    Would be happy to see you here, kce8, and you too hedonist. I've seen orcas many times, often from the deck of BC Ferries when I'm traveling between Vancouver and Victoria. I've also seen humpbacks, with the closest encounter a few years back when we were kayaking off Haida Gwai (Queen Charlotte Islands) as part of a sailing trip. I've never seen the belly rubs, though.
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • PJfanwillneverleave1
    PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    oftenreading wrote: »
    kce8 wrote: »
    oftenreading wrote: »
    Just for fun this morning, a little video of orcas giving themselves belly massages on the pebbles at a beach near Campbell River, about 3 hours north of Victoria.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/02/02/bc-orcas-beach-rubbing-video_n_6587324.html

    Wow, ....this is what I dream about since maybe 1990 !!!
    I never saw something like this or even just one Orca and I think I would have not being able to get out just one word in this situation...Dreaming about travelling to Vencouver Island or any other place in the world just to see Orcas in free nature...I hope someday this will become true! They are so beautiful - the most admirable animal for me!

    Would be happy to see you here, kce8, and you too hedonist. I've seen orcas many times, often from the deck of BC Ferries when I'm traveling between Vancouver and Victoria. I've also seen humpbacks, with the closest encounter a few years back when we were kayaking off Haida Gwai (Queen Charlotte Islands) as part of a sailing trip. I've never seen the belly rubs, though.

    Good old sunshine breakfast.
  • kce8
    kce8 Posts: 1,636
    oftenreading wrote: »
    kce8 wrote: »
    oftenreading wrote: »
    Just for fun this morning, a little video of orcas giving themselves belly massages on the pebbles at a beach near Campbell River, about 3 hours north of Victoria.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/02/02/bc-orcas-beach-rubbing-video_n_6587324.html

    Wow, ....this is what I dream about since maybe 1990 !!!
    I never saw something like this or even just one Orca and I think I would have not being able to get out just one word in this situation...Dreaming about travelling to Vencouver Island or any other place in the world just to see Orcas in free nature...I hope someday this will become true! They are so beautiful - the most admirable animal for me!

    Would be happy to see you here, kce8, and you too hedonist. I've seen orcas many times, often from the deck of BC Ferries when I'm traveling between Vancouver and Victoria. I've also seen humpbacks, with the closest encounter a few years back when we were kayaking off Haida Gwai (Queen Charlotte Islands) as part of a sailing trip. I've never seen the belly rubs, though.

    Thank you oftenreading! Now I realize where you happy man are living!
    Congratulations for living in such a great place of nature from the middle of boring Germany! :)
    We have 2 big framed posters in our apartment and my son´s first stuffed animal was a big `Steiff´ Orca! I maybe showed him every existing documentation about orcas in his childhood, lol
    I love this beautiful beings but I will never go to a dolphinarium and surely not support showing whales in captivity ! So I think this will be a dream forever bc it´s just so far away and since it´s all changing for me it´s all about time and money for the next time...
    Anyways, this animals are just so adorable ! They always let me remember the excellent power of nature and this feeling of being nothing else as just another race of animal in this world. :)>-
  • kce8
    kce8 Posts: 1,636
    (:\"> Sorry again for my genglish....)

    This enthusiasm for Vancouver Island just came from some of this documentations I saw and loved. Now I realized that I just have to take time to watch them all again...
  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    rgambs wrote: »
    A round on me everybody! I started trouble in the Lounge, my bad! Let's all kick back and get ready for the weekend, it should be here in... :-??
    Well it will come around here in a few days lol
    Cheers!
    Did you say weekend? Doing my math it's Tuesday morning and Thurs at happy hour is the official start/Gateway to the weekend. So just over 48 hrs.Totally doable.Time to start planning.
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    PJfanwillneverleave1 wrote: »
    oftenreading wrote: »
    kce8 wrote: »
    oftenreading wrote: »
    Just for fun this morning, a little video of orcas giving themselves belly massages on the pebbles at a beach near Campbell River, about 3 hours north of Victoria.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/02/02/bc-orcas-beach-rubbing-video_n_6587324.html

    Wow, ....this is what I dream about since maybe 1990 !!!
    I never saw something like this or even just one Orca and I think I would have not being able to get out just one word in this situation...Dreaming about travelling to Vencouver Island or any other place in the world just to see Orcas in free nature...I hope someday this will become true! They are so beautiful - the most admirable animal for me!

    Would be happy to see you here, kce8, and you too hedonist. I've seen orcas many times, often from the deck of BC Ferries when I'm traveling between Vancouver and Victoria. I've also seen humpbacks, with the closest encounter a few years back when we were kayaking off Haida Gwai (Queen Charlotte Islands) as part of a sailing trip. I've never seen the belly rubs, though.

    Good old sunshine breakfast.

    Pacific buffet all the way.
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,814
    Who's serving ill take a Stella on tap please and pass some peanuts ....
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    STELLA!!!!

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