Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-11 Thread Bill Gallagher
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 11:29 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal Correction: It's parts per million in volume and cause of acid rain CO2 levels are at very small amount in the air around the earth, SNIPPED ___ http

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-11 Thread Tom Hargrave
@okiebenz.com Sent: 2/10/07 6:11 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal That is the problem presented to the US population. we do not understand it vs. acid rain is a chemical reaction from CO2 Looking at this issue over the last 150 years, the ponds and rivers will never

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-10 Thread Bill Gallagher
Raymond Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 9:15 AM To: Diesel List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal Its cold right now on the east coast... 2 years in a row I've ridden my motorcycle after Thanksgiving. We had the second warmest December on record. Climate, not weather. Don't judge

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-10 Thread Hendrik Riessen
Message - From: Bill Gallagher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 11:29 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal Correction: It's parts per million in volume and cause of acid rain CO2 levels are at very small

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-08 Thread Mitch Haley
Curt Raymond wrote: I'm with you Tom, whats a moderate to do? http://tinyurl.com/yrswxg http://tinyurl.com/yrlm9o

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-08 Thread Tom Hargrave
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mitch Haley Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 7:28 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal Curt Raymond wrote: I'm with you Tom, whats a moderate to do? http

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-08 Thread Tom Hargrave
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curt Raymond Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 9:15 AM To: Diesel List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal Its cold right now on the east coast... 2 years in a row I've ridden my motorcycle after Thanksgiving. We had the second warmest

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-08 Thread Tom Hargrave
To: Diesel List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal I'm with you Tom, whats a moderate to do? I'll tell you what I do, I drive at 20 year old car that averages better than 35mpg. I've got 85 acres that within a decade should be covered with trees. Every month I invest in insulating my house

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-08 Thread Craig McCluskey
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:49:27 -0500 (GMT-05:00) Peter Frederick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Too bad they all contain mercury I'm thinking white LEDs someday, although those have some nasty ecological implications from manufacture, too. White LEDs indeed are very promising. While they do have

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-08 Thread Mitch Haley
Tom Hargrave wrote: And regarding replacing older vehicles with newer fuel efficient models. Has anyone calculated the environmental impact of manufacturing a new car? I just use purchase price as a proxy for energy consumption (total, including what the employees buy and consume with

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-08 Thread Jim Cathey
I do basically the same. My wood stove burns every night it's cold I consider wood the ultimate renewable resource. It's what we do. On our place, pine trees are weeds. Sure grow like 'em, they even sprout out of the rocks. And regarding replacing older vehicles with newer fuel efficient

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-08 Thread Billr
: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal Curt, I do basically the same. My wood stove burns every night it's cold I consider wood the ultimate renewable resource. And regarding replacing older vehicles with newer fuel efficient models. Has anyone calculated the environmental impact of manufacturing

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-08 Thread Tom Hargrave
Just make them in China - it seems they don't care anyway. Original Message From: Craig McCluskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02/07/07 11:02 PM To: Peter Frederick [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-08 Thread Rich Thomas
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-goldberg8feb08,0,5612072.column?coll=la-opinion-rightrail Even so, the costs are just too high for too little payoff. Even if the Kyoto Protocol were put into effect tomorrow — a total impossibility — we'd barely affect global warming. Jerry Mahlman

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-08 Thread Curt Raymond
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' mercedes@okiebenz.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Curt, I do basically the same. My wood stove burns every night it's cold I consider wood the ultimate

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-08 Thread ts
.. Tom - Original Message - From: David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 9:28 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find it interesting that allot of US citizens (who

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-07 Thread David Brodbeck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find it interesting that allot of US citizens (who by the way make up 5% of the worlds population but consume 26% of its energy) refuse to believe what we are doing cannot harm the 20 mile deep ocean of air we have surrounding us. It doesn't surprise me. People

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-07 Thread Tom Hargrave
. Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.kegkits.com 256-656-1924 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 6:40 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal I find it interesting

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-07 Thread Jim Cathey
You brought up the nuts bolts behind what I've been saying, that there is no proven correlation between CO2 levels global warming. A nit: there _is_ a correlation, under question is the causal relationship. As I recall from Philosophy 201 (?), that would be the post hoc ergo propter hoc

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-07 Thread David Brodbeck
Tom Hargrave wrote: Oh, I agree that we are polluting the air and we need to stop ASAP. My only issue is with the current Global Warming mass hysteria. It's to the point where the experts were blaming this year's earlier warm weather on global warming but now that it's actually cold in the

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-07 Thread andrew strasfogel
They damn well better NOT contain mercury. :(( My sense is they do last longer, at least the ones from Home Depot. I don't know yet about the cheapies from Ikea that we just purchased @3 for $3.99). Curt - you are hardly a moderate. You are a green zealot, in the best sense of both words.

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-07 Thread jwreames
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Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-07 Thread Curt Raymond
and other motorized devices. All my other footprint reducing endevors are to payoff the fun stuff... -Curt Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 10:00:48 -0500 From: andrew strasfogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Message-ID: [EMAIL

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-07 Thread LarryT
: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal Its cold right now on the east coast... 2 years in a row I've ridden my motorcycle after Thanksgiving. We had the second warmest December on record. Climate, not weather. Don't judge based on one city or state in a week, whats the overall average

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-07 Thread Allan Streib
Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Whatever happened to the theory I'd heard that we were due, and headed into, a minor ice age, except for our human CO2 footprint! The last mini ice age, which started with the end of the midieval warm period, ended in the 1800s. We've been warming since

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-07 Thread Peter Frederick
GF bulbs are sensitve to position (they don't like to be base up) and to heat -- I have some that have lasted years now in sidways ceiling fixtures that open except for the glass diffuser underneath, while some in the basement ceiling (base up) only last six month or so. The ones in the

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-07 Thread John Robbins
Allan Streib wrote: Curt Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I replace incadescent lightbulbs with cf. What's your experience with this? I started doing this, and found that they don't last any longer than incandescent, and are much more expensive, so I stopped. With the lifespans

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-07 Thread andrew strasfogel
I would hope we have better climate prediction technology and methodologies than those 70s scientists who thought we were in a global cooling phase. Think: supercomputers, satellites, GIS, etc. Our scientific tools have come a long way since 1977. On 2/7/07, John Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-06 Thread Tom Hargrave
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Frederick Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 5:14 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal Gee, that must explain why sattelite photographs show some much less ice around both

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-06 Thread David Brodbeck
Tom Hargrave wrote: It's also true that today's temperature changes are tracking lock step with increased sun spot activity. Any ham will tell you sun spot activity increases and decreases on a 22-year-cycle. Are you saying there's a similar 22-year cycle of temperature increases and

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-06 Thread Tom Hargrave
cycle. Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.kegkits.com 256-656-1924 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Brodbeck Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 9:17 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal Tom Hargrave

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-06 Thread Mitch Haley
David Brodbeck wrote: Any ham will tell you sun spot activity increases and decreases on a 22-year-cycle. Are you saying there's a similar 22-year cycle of temperature increases and decreases? I can remember the nature magazines telling us that global cooling was caused by humans, seems

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-06 Thread David Brodbeck
Mitch Haley wrote: David Brodbeck wrote: Any ham will tell you sun spot activity increases and decreases on a 22-year-cycle. Are you saying there's a similar 22-year cycle of temperature increases and decreases? I can remember the nature magazines telling us that global cooling was

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-06 Thread kevin kraly
the effect is diminishing as more particulate pollution is eliminated. I guess it's Italian Tune-up time! Vroom vroom vroom! Bring on the soot! Kevin in Hillsboro, OR 1983 300SD 266K miles, Ursula

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-06 Thread LarryT
Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 6:13 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal Gee, that must explain why sattelite photographs show some much less ice around both poles, eh? As I remember, the warming of the planet has not been in dispute

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-06 Thread L. Mark Finch
Rebut this: http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/exhibitgcc/historical03.jsp http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A3.lrg.gif

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-06 Thread Lee Einer
L. Mark Finch wrote: Rebut this: http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/exhibitgcc/historical03.jsp http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A3.lrg.gif Those temperatures were all recorded by lefties and environmental wackos. I'm sure of it. Lee

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-06 Thread Bob DuPuy
I'll rebut it even though no point has been made. In the case of the first graph it must be stated that just because two events occur together and track in a similar fashion does not establish a cause and effect relationship. It is an interesting and theory that increase concentrations of Co2 can

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-06 Thread Tom Hargrave
: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 11:43 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal I'll rebut it even though no point has been made. In the case of the first graph it must be stated that just because two events occur together and track in a similar fashion does

[MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-05 Thread LarryT
The following is a editorial written a few weeks ago - And, now I hear AlGore's movie has been nominated for an Academy Award - I didnt realize they had a catagory for Best Propaganda film by a former VP. Anyway - read this for some surprising alternative explanations -- Algore and Kyoto

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-05 Thread John Freer
Well now, that sure is good news. Time to get a V12 W140 and not worry about oil reserves and all that nonsense since we can build new refineries all over the country. And I can't wait for the coal burning utility plants to make a comeback. Let's geter done! On 2/5/07, LarryT [EMAIL

Re: [MBZ] OT - Global Warming rebuttal

2007-02-05 Thread Peter Frederick
Gee, that must explain why sattelite photographs show some much less ice around both poles, eh? As I remember, the warming of the planet has not been in dispute by reputable scientists for going on 30 years now -- there are a few who insist that temperatures at 50,000 ft aren't going up much,