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Dave W.
Info Junkie

USA
26020 Posts

Posted - 04/25/2007 :  20:13:13  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Poll Question:
What method should be used to combat global warming?

Choices:
Silence all pundits, as they release 10 times the hot air of normal people
Explode a-bombs to create a 'nuclear winter' just large enough to counteract the warming
Move Earth farther away from the Sun
Use ice from comets to cool the Earth
Pump a few trillion tons of sulfides into the upper atmosphere to block solar radiation
Build gigantic mirrors in space to reflect some of the Sun's energy away
Sequester carbon by ramping up plastic production a thousandfold
Other (please explain)

(Anonymous Vote)

- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too.

Ricky
SFN Die Hard

USA
4907 Posts

Posted - 04/25/2007 :  20:15:43   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Other - Build a chimney to space so that anything we burn, the emissions will go straight into space.

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov
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Kil
Evil Skeptic

USA
13476 Posts

Posted - 04/25/2007 :  20:55:39   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Deny that it's happening and claim it was Al Gore who made the whole thing up...

Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.

Why not question something for a change?

Genetic Literacy Project
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pleco
SFN Addict

USA
2998 Posts

Posted - 04/25/2007 :  21:45:28   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit pleco's Homepage Send pleco a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Other - use a large Space Hoover wielded by a Mega Maid to suck all the "evil" gas away:




by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart.
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard

USA
4574 Posts

Posted - 04/25/2007 :  22:37:52   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send H. Humbert a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Unprayer.


"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman

"Face facts with dignity." --found inside a fortune cookie
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Hawks
SFN Regular

Canada
1383 Posts

Posted - 04/26/2007 :  00:47:09   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Hawks's Homepage Send Hawks a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Decrease the Sun's output by 8%.

METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden!
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filthy
SFN Die Hard

USA
14408 Posts

Posted - 04/26/2007 :  02:23:32   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Methinks someone's been watching Futurama....



Other: I'll have to go with Double H and unpray it away. Or, we can loot the world's treasuries and terraform Mars. Or, we can just loot the world's treasuries.




"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)

"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres


"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude

Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,

and Crypto-Communist!

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Siberia
SFN Addict

Brazil
2322 Posts

Posted - 04/26/2007 :  06:59:33   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Siberia's Homepage  Send Siberia an AOL message  Send Siberia a Yahoo! Message Send Siberia a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Other - move to the Moon and watch...


"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa

"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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Vegeta
Skeptic Friend

United Kingdom
238 Posts

Posted - 04/26/2007 :  07:09:19   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Vegeta a Private Message  Reply with Quote
start steralising people

What are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen a pink shirt before?

"I was asked if I would do a similar sketch but focusing on the shortcomings of Islam rather than Christianity. I said, 'No, no I wouldn't. I may be an atheist but I'm not stupid.'" - Steward Lee
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend

Sweden
9687 Posts

Posted - 04/26/2007 :  11:12:47   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Dr. Mabuse an ICQ Message Send Dr. Mabuse a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Vegeta

start steralising people

begin with politicians who have the most to loose.

Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3

"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse

Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
Collateralmurder.
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Hawks
SFN Regular

Canada
1383 Posts

Posted - 04/26/2007 :  16:48:52   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Hawks's Homepage Send Hawks a Private Message  Reply with Quote
We could always use The Secret!

METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden!
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HalfMooner
Dingaling

Philippines
15831 Posts

Posted - 04/26/2007 :  17:50:58   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Breathe in, but don't exhale.


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive.
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Hawks
SFN Regular

Canada
1383 Posts

Posted - 04/26/2007 :  21:56:25   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Hawks's Homepage Send Hawks a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Check out how your area would be affected by rising sea levels.
I'm alright.

METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden!
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HalfMooner
Dingaling

Philippines
15831 Posts

Posted - 04/27/2007 :  02:55:47   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Hawks

Check out how your area would be affected by rising sea levels.
I'm alright.

Thanks, Hawks, that mapping is great food for thought!

My home would survive a 7 meter sea rise, as there are rising bluffs along the ocean here. The sea would only come in a few meters.

But elsewhere in California, John Steinbeck's Cannery Row in Monterey, along with the wonderful Monterey Bay Aquarium, would be inundated. The city of Alameda would mostly be drowned, as would much of Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond, and San Pablo. San Francisco's Financial District would go the way of Atlantis. Menlo Park would flood.

A new inland sea would appear deep in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley, stretching almost from Yuba City to Modesto. This sea would cover Interstate Highway 5, the main West Coast north-south highway. It would also wash out some of the most important fresh water aqueducts in the state. Sacramento itself would be at least partly flooded.

In the state's south, the Gulf of California (which presently does not touch this state) would likely extend almost to Palm Springs, engulfing the present (and shrinking) Salton Sea, and destroying the cities of Indio, El Centro, and Calexico (and Mexicali, across the border in the Mexican State of Baja California Del Norte.)

That's all just Califonia, which is not an especially low-lying or flat state.

Of course, a lesser degree of sea level rise is probably more likely than seven meters, especially in this century.


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive.
Edited by - HalfMooner on 04/27/2007 03:27:06
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Hawks
SFN Regular

Canada
1383 Posts

Posted - 04/27/2007 :  15:28:15   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Hawks's Homepage Send Hawks a Private Message  Reply with Quote
My house (Christchurch, New Zealand) would be flooded after a 12 meter rise. Assuming it doesn't rain too much.

METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden!
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard

USA
4574 Posts

Posted - 04/27/2007 :  15:36:31   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send H. Humbert a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Hawks

Check out how your area would be affected by rising sea levels.
I'm alright.

Well, Cleveland survives. I guess rising sea levels won't affect the levels of the Great Lakes.


"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman

"Face facts with dignity." --found inside a fortune cookie
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