...disregard my whole 'bleeding heart' bit, I just can't seem to be able to read today. I most certainly shouldn't have used the term "libertarian", but "liberal" - thanks for pointing that out.
A bleeding heart is also another way to call someone a coward. I wasn't aware it had political meaning as well.
But yes, perhaps I should talk to 'an actual climatologist' - but you perceive, it's just Hunam nature to first be afraid and then rationalise.
As for trolling, dear God, no. This was my opinion - or worries - put in 0s and 1s. Last I checked I was allowed to have worries.:) I do concede the point that the next winter just might be as cold as they used to be in the olden days. And it might not. But I would still rather play things safe.
...until global warming would even start fully kicking in, allowing for a chance to persuade both the US and China into the Kyoto treaty, but you know what? I live in Finland, where anything from 14 to -4 degrees Fahrenheit (-10 to -20 degrees Celsius for us Europeans and whatnot) used to be perfectly normal even during a mild winter. Back in the mid-90s winters used to begin even as early as October, and sometimes there was still some unmolten snow in May.
These past three winters I have been rather disappointed with, and why not? We've only had lasting snow as late as the second week of December the past two years, and I'm quite certain 2002 the snow didn't stick to the ground until the end of November. This past winter has been one of the worst ever winters I've yet to see - February is supposed to be the coldest month of the year, yet it's been 32 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit the whole month, with today being the exception (14 degrees Fahrenheit). In the end of January month the snow almost melted away again.
I don't care_ what's causing this - be it CO2, just normal temperature fluctuation in the course of history or even aliens from planet Yuggoth with anal probes... I want to play it safe with this treaty. I want there to be a future, even though I'm being a cynic and telling myself that if it's not one thing causing us to kill ourselves, it's something else...
But hey, I'm just being a paranoid, right? (Probably a stinkin' bleeding heart hippie eurotrash libertarian, too. </self irony>) I'm just the guy who finds it a little confusing to feel comfortable outside without gloves and a woolly hat - in midwinter with the windchill factor included.
Slightly OT: Today's headline on the local newspaper was about the rightist Christians demanding for some environtalist attitude from the US government. I was wondering when they'd pick up on the faint green attitude in the beginning of the Bible...
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...disregard my whole 'bleeding heart' bit, I just can't seem to be able to read today. I most certainly shouldn't have used the term "libertarian", but "liberal" - thanks for pointing that out.
A bleeding heart is also another way to call someone a coward. I wasn't aware it had political meaning as well.
:) I do concede the point that the next winter just might be as cold as they used to be in the olden days. And it might not. But I would still rather play things safe.
But yes, perhaps I should talk to 'an actual climatologist' - but you perceive, it's just Hunam nature to first be afraid and then rationalise.
As for trolling, dear God, no. This was my opinion - or worries - put in 0s and 1s. Last I checked I was allowed to have worries.
Silly Hunams. The Spathi know way better.
...until global warming would even start fully kicking in, allowing for a chance to persuade both the US and China into the Kyoto treaty, but you know what? I live in Finland, where anything from 14 to -4 degrees Fahrenheit (-10 to -20 degrees Celsius for us Europeans and whatnot) used to be perfectly normal even during a mild winter. Back in the mid-90s winters used to begin even as early as October, and sometimes there was still some unmolten snow in May.
These past three winters I have been rather disappointed with, and why not? We've only had lasting snow as late as the second week of December the past two years, and I'm quite certain 2002 the snow didn't stick to the ground until the end of November. This past winter has been one of the worst ever winters I've yet to see - February is supposed to be the coldest month of the year, yet it's been 32 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit the whole month, with today being the exception (14 degrees Fahrenheit). In the end of January month the snow almost melted away again.
I don't care_ what's causing this - be it CO2, just normal temperature fluctuation in the course of history or even aliens from planet Yuggoth with anal probes... I want to play it safe with this treaty. I want there to be a future, even though I'm being a cynic and telling myself that if it's not one thing causing us to kill ourselves, it's something else...
But hey, I'm just being a paranoid, right? (Probably a stinkin' bleeding heart hippie eurotrash libertarian, too. </self irony>) I'm just the guy who finds it a little confusing to feel comfortable outside without gloves and a woolly hat - in midwinter with the windchill factor included.
Slightly OT: Today's headline on the local newspaper was about the rightist Christians demanding for some environtalist attitude from the US government. I was wondering when they'd pick up on the faint green attitude in the beginning of the Bible...