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2006-12-05 Fifth Column

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Posted by BrerRabbit 2006-12-05 06:24|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yeah, whatever happened to Acid Rain?

Posted by tu3031 2006-12-05 09:11|| 2006-12-05 09:11|| Front Page Top

#2 All the acid rain was evaporated by global warming.

Posted by Mike 2006-12-05 10:09|| 2006-12-05 10:09|| Front Page Top

#3 I long for the global cooling days.....

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2006-12-05 10:39|| 2006-12-05 10:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Darth, where do you live? After this morning's cold in Atlanta, I long for some warming, lol!

Posted by BA 2006-12-05 11:09|| 2006-12-05 11:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Colorado springs. We just had a nice 4 day cold snap with a high of 15. It was lovely. Now it is all 51 and the snow is melting. Poop.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2006-12-05 11:59|| 2006-12-05 11:59|| Front Page Top

#6 I long for the global cooling days.....

I long for some warming, lol!

As they say in Texas, "Don't like the weather? Just wait a minute, it'll change."

Oh wait, that's now a Bad Thing...

Posted by .com 2006-12-05 12:04|| 2006-12-05 12:04|| Front Page Top

#7 This article needs wide dissemination, lol. Plz send the link to every humanoid you know - even the *sniffs*. Let them screech and be damned, lol.

Posted by .com 2006-12-05 12:42|| 2006-12-05 12:42|| Front Page Top

#8 As they say in Texas, "Don't like the weather? Just wait a minute, it'll change."

Oh wait, that's now a Bad Thing...

I am calling for a moratorium on the tides. Rolling in and out all day causes me endless anxiety 'cos I see the li'l tidal critters having to constantly rebuild their homes. Won't somebody think of the baby clams?

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-12-05 12:46|| 2006-12-05 12:46|| Front Page Top

#9 Lol, Sea! It's For The Chilluns.

Posted by .com 2006-12-05 12:52|| 2006-12-05 12:52|| Front Page Top

#10 As they say in Texas, "Don't like the weather? Just wait a minute, it'll change."

lol, dot! Reminds me of the Top 10 ways you know you live in the south. Forget which # it was, but one of the reasons was:

You run both your heat and your air conditioning (cooling) in the SAME day!

Posted by BA 2006-12-05 13:41|| 2006-12-05 13:41|| Front Page Top

#11 True, BA - in the Dallas area we saw 40+ deg temp swings in a matter of hours there every year. Happened just the other day in Dallas with that front that swept across the eastern half of the US.

Texas, Okla, Kansas, Neb - the Warm Humid Gulf + the Blue Northers... flat as a pool table = Big Magic, and it would happen damned fast, too, lol.

When I was young and really crazy I used to take pictures of lightening. Huge black walls, called Supercells nowadays, would sweep down from the NW - and the leading edge would be lit up like a Christmas Tree from Hell. Got some good ones, lol. Also almost got fried twice, lol. Self-administered shock therapy, heh. Prolly why I'm so mellow, now. ;-)

Posted by .com 2006-12-05 13:49|| 2006-12-05 13:49|| Front Page Top

#12 Prolly why I'm so mellow, now. ;-)

Ah ha! I knew if we waited long enough you would let the secret to your mellowness slip. Now, I must find a strong weather front.

Posted by Mick Dundee 2006-12-05 14:40|| 2006-12-05 14:40|| Front Page Top

#13 Couple things. Acid rain was real and in at least one city in Minnesota it is. Done around the Coke (sp?) plant south of Saint Paul you can't eat the snow. I've tried. Bent over and picked up some fresh powered. Folks it burned the inside of my mouth. And yes DDT was pretty fuvked up. It destroyed everything, both good and bad insects.

That being said, the MSM runs on two mottoes, if it bleeds it's a story and working Christian America sucks.

Screw these turds but don't let some of the basic science fool you. Just because they take a side doesn't make it false.

Posted by Icerigger 2006-12-05 14:53|| 2006-12-05 14:53|| Front Page Top

#14 LOL, Mick. Not to be done lightly, I assure you. Me 'n the Earthworms were quite "thrilled" by the experience conveyed to us by the wet ground / grass, lol. There were thousands of them writhing about above-ground after I finally regained my, um, composure, lol.

Posted by .com 2006-12-05 15:18|| 2006-12-05 15:18|| Front Page Top

#15 Jeebus, dot. Quite the hair raising experience, eh? Too bad you're not a lil' younger and more emotional (like all LLL goons). You could video your experiences and post 'em to youtube.

And, we had the same swing in temps (albeit not quite as bad) when the cold front whipped through here. Highs in the lower 70s one day, then highs in the upper 40s the next. I full-on expected AlBore to show up on his ~~Global Warming~~ Climate Change World Tour and give a speech this morning, lol!

Posted by BA 2006-12-05 15:44|| 2006-12-05 15:44|| Front Page Top

#16 DDT was a quite useful insecticide and it scored high marks for eradicating malaria-bearing mosquitoes in Africa and Latin America - so high that it is now being looked at again because malaria in those regions is so out of control.

Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring" is credited with starting the modern ecology movement and ending the use of DDT - on the basis of what we now know to have been very unfounded pseudo-science.

In the meantime, since DDT was discontinued, tens of millions have died.

Does DDT kill many different insects, you betcha'. But what is the cost of a few billions of insects dead versus a few tens of millions of human beings?

We can use it more wisely today if allowed to.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2006-12-05 17:35|| 2006-12-05 17:35|| Front Page Top

#17 I miss SARS. Dang Bird Flu came and took the wind out of SARS's sails.

Posted by eLarson 2006-12-05 21:15|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2006-12-05 21:15|| Front Page Top

#18 The first time I was stationed at Offut AFB (Omaha, Nebraska), DW and I used to sit out in front of the temporary quarters and watch the lightning storms across the Missouri in Iowa. Three months later, a tornado-like windstorm blew down half the trees we had to look over. Darth - another CoS resident here. We have crazy weather too, 15 for a high one day, 56 for the high the next!

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-12-05 23:13|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-12-05 23:13|| Front Page Top

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