It might be illegal to say "CLIMATE CHANGE" in Florida, but that's not stopping President Obama from going there to say "CLIMATE CHANGE" a whole bunch of times, for Earth Day. Oh, does that make it awkward for you, Florida? And for all you Floridian Republicans -- Gov. Rick Scott, former Gov. Jeb Bush, Sen. Marco Rubio -- who are like, "Meh, Bible says nuh uh, no THOSE WORDS here"? Too bad, so sad, CLIMATE CHANGE.
I notice that Mr Nye has been getting a lot of criticism for taking a 747 on Earth Day. If he hadn't been going then Barack HUSSEIN Obama would have um cycled or something.
Even the Koch brothers believe in Climate Change. But they know if they pay Millionaire Republicans to lie over and over, the Rubes will fall for it...
“You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There's been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years. Bacteria first; later the first multicellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea, on the land. Then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years, great dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away -- all this against a background of continuous and violent upheaval. Mountain ranges thrust up, eroded away, cometary impacts, volcano eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving, an endless, constant, violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of years. Earth has survived everything in its time. It will certainly survive us.
If all the nuclear weapons in the world went off at once and all the plants, all the animals died and the earth was sizzling hot for a hundred thousand years, life would survive, somewhere: under the soil, frozen in Arctic ice. Sooner or later, when the planet was no longer inhospitable, life would spread again. The evolutionary process would begin again. It might take a few billion years for life to regain its present variety. Of course, it would be very different from what it is now, but the earth would survive our folly, only we would not.
If the ozone layer gets thinner, ultraviolet radiation sears the earth, so what? Ultraviolet radiation is good for life. It's powerful energy. It promotes mutation, change. Many forms of life will thrive with more UV radiation. Many others will die out. Do you think this is the first time that's happened?
Think about oxygen. Necessary for life now, but oxygen is actually a metabolic poison, a corrosive gas, like fluorine. When oxygen was first produced as a waste product by certain plant cells some three billion years ago, it created a crisis for all other life on earth. Those plants were polluting the environment, exhaling a lethal gas. Earth eventually had an atmosphere incompatible with life. Nevertheless, life on earth took care of itself.
In the thinking of the human being a hundred years is a long time. A hundred years ago we didn't have cars, airplanes, computers or vaccines. It was a whole different world, but to the earth, a hundred years is nothing. A million years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can't imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven't got the humility to try. We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.”
If Genghis Khan wiping out millions of people caused a global cooling affect, then billions of people burning fossil fuels can cause a global warming effect.
I think that you've missed the point; It doesn't matter one way or the other if humans are causing climate change. The Earth will survive us and anything we can throw at it. We simply won't be here to see what comes next. As Chrichton states, it's vanity to assume that we actually matter.
According to the planetary-scale modelers, we probably don’t have the ability to cause a runaway greenhouse effect, where the CO2 from sediments winds up in the atmosphere. However, the sun will become a red giant in a few billion years and warm the planet to the point where that will happen, irreversibly, and the atmosphere will resemble Venus. It won’t matter because our AI successors will own the place in a few decades anyway.
Let's gas up Air Force One and burn up 9,000 gallons of fuel in one day to celebrate Earth Day. Make sure we mobilize the Secret Service and get a big motorcade to burn more fossil fuels. When the motorcade goes by make sure we cause a traffic jam so people who have to be on the road stay on the road longer so we can burn even more fossil fuels. The president could have made a cool move and talk about Earth Day from the oval office and explained that he was not going to burn more fuel in one day than the average American burns in five years just for a photo op at the Everglades. To all the Earth Day celebrations with bands and big parties. How much gas did you use to go somewhere you normally would not go? How many styrofoam cups were used to quench everybody's thirst at these events? The person who wrote this article is a moron. Who ever supports Obama's trip to the Everglades and back in one day in a 747 is also a moron.
You misspelled "Obama".
What a Kohm job!
Deep end.... of the gene pool
Respect? Damn, I'm full-on salutin'.
I notice that Mr Nye has been getting a lot of criticism for taking a 747 on Earth Day. If he hadn't been going then Barack HUSSEIN Obama would have um cycled or something.
Thanks Obama. I mean Bill.
Even the Koch brothers believe in Climate Change. But they know if they pay Millionaire Republicans to lie over and over, the Rubes will fall for it...
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... they countz as child abuse.
If we lost Floriduh to the sea, would anybody really complain? Always a silver lining, people!
Hey Barry, Custom Men, Maiden Lane, NYC shirts cut to order.
I think Obama misspoke when he said climate change is a threat to the planet. Standards of living, perhaps, but the planet abides.
“You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There's been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years. Bacteria first; later the first multicellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea, on the land. Then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years, great dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away -- all this against a background of continuous and violent upheaval. Mountain ranges thrust up, eroded away, cometary impacts, volcano eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving, an endless, constant, violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of years. Earth has survived everything in its time. It will certainly survive us.
If all the nuclear weapons in the world went off at once and all the plants, all the animals died and the earth was sizzling hot for a hundred thousand years, life would survive, somewhere: under the soil, frozen in Arctic ice. Sooner or later, when the planet was no longer inhospitable, life would spread again. The evolutionary process would begin again. It might take a few billion years for life to regain its present variety. Of course, it would be very different from what it is now, but the earth would survive our folly, only we would not.
If the ozone layer gets thinner, ultraviolet radiation sears the earth, so what? Ultraviolet radiation is good for life. It's powerful energy. It promotes mutation, change. Many forms of life will thrive with more UV radiation. Many others will die out. Do you think this is the first time that's happened?
Think about oxygen. Necessary for life now, but oxygen is actually a metabolic poison, a corrosive gas, like fluorine. When oxygen was first produced as a waste product by certain plant cells some three billion years ago, it created a crisis for all other life on earth. Those plants were polluting the environment, exhaling a lethal gas. Earth eventually had an atmosphere incompatible with life. Nevertheless, life on earth took care of itself.
In the thinking of the human being a hundred years is a long time. A hundred years ago we didn't have cars, airplanes, computers or vaccines. It was a whole different world, but to the earth, a hundred years is nothing. A million years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can't imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven't got the humility to try. We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park / Congo
Captain Kraut libel!!1! Oh, wait...
If Genghis Khan wiping out millions of people caused a global cooling affect, then billions of people burning fossil fuels can cause a global warming effect.
I think that you've missed the point; It doesn't matter one way or the other if humans are causing climate change. The Earth will survive us and anything we can throw at it. We simply won't be here to see what comes next. As Chrichton states, it's vanity to assume that we actually matter.
According to the planetary-scale modelers, we probably don’t have the ability to cause a runaway greenhouse effect, where the CO2 from sediments winds up in the atmosphere. However, the sun will become a red giant in a few billion years and warm the planet to the point where that will happen, irreversibly, and the atmosphere will resemble Venus. It won’t matter because our AI successors will own the place in a few decades anyway.
Let's gas up Air Force One and burn up 9,000 gallons of fuel in one day to celebrate Earth Day. Make sure we mobilize the Secret Service and get a big motorcade to burn more fossil fuels. When the motorcade goes by make sure we cause a traffic jam so people who have to be on the road stay on the road longer so we can burn even more fossil fuels. The president could have made a cool move and talk about Earth Day from the oval office and explained that he was not going to burn more fuel in one day than the average American burns in five years just for a photo op at the Everglades. To all the Earth Day celebrations with bands and big parties. How much gas did you use to go somewhere you normally would not go? How many styrofoam cups were used to quench everybody's thirst at these events? The person who wrote this article is a moron. Who ever supports Obama's trip to the Everglades and back in one day in a 747 is also a moron.