Just as they are marching in D. C. today demanding Congress to act on Climate Change (there were snow flurries), cold front after cold front keeps chilling the folks east of the Mississippi River. It seems an upper air pattern has set up keeping a deep trough over the east coast with a ridge over the west. If this continues into December & January, it becomes VERY LIKELY we will see a hard freeze (below 20 degrees) south of Lake Pontchartrain. Right now the Lake is still too warm (around 60) for that to happen, but if these fronts keep coming, get your home ready for some real cold weather.
Perhaps you've noticed NBC's Today show & The Weather Channel doing reports about going GREEN. I applaude being a steward of our Planet, however, I object about many half truths and flat out errors that they report as "gospel truth". Yes, deforestation by man is causing some local climate change and yes, urbanization is causing some local climate change and yes we are/were in a warm CYCLE, however, there is more and more evidence indicating that cycle is ending. Worse yet, they continue to indicate a belief that CO2 is driving the warming. With a new President, new UN-NECESSARY laws will be passed increasing the costs of fossil fuels further hurting a depressed economy. Lets be Green, but not to the extent it places more stress on our fragile economy. Time to hear from you. Give me YOUR GREEN IDEAS. What should/could we do to help our Planet? I live in Jefferson Parish. Let's get back to re-cycling!
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Yes! I would love to see a recycling program here in Gretna. It bothers me everytime I throw away something that should be recycled (paper, milk containers, soda cans). I told you before I disagree with the mindset of immediate gratification and greedy grabbing for natural resources, but I can agree with you that there might be better ways than increasing the costs of fossil fuels. Investing in new technologies will help us go green while also creating many new jobs and probably helping the ailing automative industry as well. Instead of drilling off the coast, why not invest in wind and water power? Instead of fueling our cars with polluting expensive fuels, why not start working on fuel cells and new technologies like soy?
By the way, I came here from New England to escape the cold! Glad I didn't give all my sweaters to Goodwill!
I'm new to your site, but looking around, I don't see any links to any of the web sites that I've found that take a skeptical attitude towards global warming similiar to yours.
Probably you are aware of them, but on the off chance you're not, here are some of the sites I've found helpful:
http://www.icecap.us/index.php
http://co2sceptics.com/index.php
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/
And a couple of interesting essays:
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?ff0796e1-e571-4b15-9d0a-1d53dff2a6bc
http://www.americanthinker.com/the_viscount_monckton_of_brenchley/
Finally, an amateur's site which provided me with most of these links, and whose summaries are helpful to laymen like myself:
http://www.seablogger.com/?cat=41
If you go to icecap.us and click on experts, you'll find my name listed.
Regarding fixing the energy problem, we can't store electricity, it must be generated to meet demand. Wind, solar, hydro all have their limits. Nuclear energy doesn't, but many are scared of it. I figure if France gets 90% of it's electricity from Nuclear, they must know something. After all, their wines are great!
Bob, you say "get back to recycling" but I've found evidence that that too may be a farce. I'd be interested to know what you think about this video. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1444391672891013193
I studied in Australia and the recycling program was amazing and the money went to the state. What a nice alternative to a higher tax actually making a difference and seeing the money used towards bettering our infrastructure or even our schools. I live in Metairie and walking around it is hard enough to find a trash can even by the bus stops. Whether you believe in environmentalism you have to admit trash on the ground is never good. We should have more respect for our neighborhood. Might I add that cloth bags are so much better than the plastic bags they just distribute the weight more and are easier to carry and can be reused. It feels as if people who argue these methods are just so annoyed with all of the global warning paranoia that they are ignoring simple ways to better our land. Shout out to Whole foods that takes my recycling and for being a great company that really cares for their customers.
Speaking of recycling....I was so mad the other day and now thought to share this....
I work in a 3 story building with 12 suites. In October the phone company distributed "The Real Yellow Pages." The lazy person they hired to distribute them to each suite, just left about 40 books in the front lobby, so tenants could take what they wanted at their leisure...About half the books just stayed there till i guess someone pitched what wasn't taken.
Soooooo....
About 2 weeks ago I get to the office and there is this truck once again delivering...what do you know...PHONE BOOKS to our building...I got the attention of one of the men and said wait you guys just delivered phone books last month...he shakes his head no and of course all he speaks is Spanish...right!
So he follows me to my office and I show him the phone books....come to find out he is delivering "The Sunshine Pages." So then he proceeds to give me 4 of them...I said no I dont want them...at most I need one...Later I find 3 extra books outside of our build, which eventually got wet.
It then hit me what a big waste of landfill space these books are or will be. One way we can reduce what goes in our landfills is not to produce a duplicate product. It would be conserving paper and trees.
Today when I need a number I go look it up on the internet...
Bob pour me a glass of that fine wine please!!!
Some great comments...keep them coming. I'll get back later regarding the recycling video. The phone books are all about money. I agree, no need to duplicate. Regarding trashy neighborhoods...I call it the "Mardi Gras Syndrome". People get use to just dumping on the ground during/after parades that they think nothing of it throughout the year.
New Orleans has been hosting some recycling drop off events, you can check the dates and times on this website-
http://www.cityofno.com/portal.aspx?portal=123&tabid=5
Anything we can do to help- I participated in one last week, and all I did was drive up and the people on scene unloaded everything and put it in the bins. Took all of about 5 minutes to complete.
Delighted to see you're on Icecap's list. It's a great site.
Here's an article that deserves as much exposure as possible imho:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/global_warming_bring_it_on.html
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