damn straight. my car broke down on the highway two days ago. i spent 3 hours in my car in the shade, no ac (about out of gas) waiting for a tow. but... i keep a 7 gallon jug of water in my trunk. it may be warm, but its WET!
On 7/26/05, Merlyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ya know, it ain't the heat that kills ya... > And it ain't the humidity either. > > It's dehydration! > > The current heatwave in arizona has pushed temps up to > 115 farenheit. It hit 121 here in Kansas back in > 1936, Colorado had 118 back in 1888! (Record high > temperatures courtesy of Google) > > Yes, the world is getting warmer in general, but the > reason people die in heat waves is that they don't > know to drink water. > > I spent a couple summers as a camp counselor in SE > Kansas in the late 90's, without any form of AC, (we > lived in canvas army tents which were much hotter than > the outside air. It routinely hit 110 in the shade > during the afternoon. Heat Stroke and Heat Exhaustion > were expected and when they did show up the med > trailer was cooled. > > The point is that people have survived (and survive > everyday) conditions similar to the ones which are > decried as heat waves and the only reason people die > in them is that they are unprepared. It has very > little to do with needing more efficient AC systems. > > --- Jed Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The New York Times has an editorial today about > > global warming. It begins: > > > > "A Few Degrees > > > > By any measure, this has already been a summer of > > extremes. The brutality > > of the record-setting heat that lay over the desert > > Southwest for the past > > two weeks may have broken at last, but it has not > > really dissipated. . . > > . Life is barely tolerable in Phoenix during an > > ordinary summer, when the > > monsoons arrive on schedule. . . ." > > > > I did not know they had monsoons in Phoenix, > > Arizona. > > > > Anyway, the editorial ends: "We survive at such high > > temperatures only with > > huge expenditures of energy. Those who cannot afford > > the energy run the > > risk of death." To which I would respond: "Yo! Mr. > > Times! That would be all > > of us. Our whole civilization. And it is not a > > 'risk.' Death is inevitable > > unless we develop radically new sources of energy." > > > > Anyway, the New York Times will never print a letter > > from me, but I asked > > Ed Storms and some others to send a brief message. > > > > > > Here is a message I sent to some newspaper reporters > > yesterday: > > > > > > The on-line German magazine Telepolis published an > > article today advocating > > a crash program to develop cold fusion to combat > > global warming. This is > > what your editorial should have said. See: "Time to > > act! The world needs an > > Apollo-type program for cold fusion": > > > > English version: > > http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20585/1.html > > > > German version: > > http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20562/1.html > > > > . . . > > > > > > Haiko's article is a huge contrast to the New York > > Times, isn't it? > > > > - Jed > > > > > > > > > Merlyn > Magickal Engineer and Technical Metaphysicist > > > > ____________________________________________________ > Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > > -- "Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write" Voltaire
