"@Angus; I think what most of the folks are saying is go and deal with it, make your corrections but dont step on anyones liberty. Fanaticism is not a good thing. "
Whose liberty is it to ruin the atmosphere? There are some things that we earthlings share, whether you like it or not. Those include the atmosphere and the seas. /example N-Atlantic pollution through the Gulf stream (fat solluble chemicals from the paper industry in the USA), Acid rain, killing lakes in Scandinavia by the thousands whose origin is from central Europe and the UK, Mercury in the baltic, making the fish there a rather unhealty food (origin forestrry in the surrounding countries) etc etc. On the receiving end is often a nation that had nothing to do with the whole mess.
When the big industries in several countries poisoned the atmosphere and oceans near and in other countries, was it just for liberty? Is it an untouchable liberty to piss into your neighbours drinking water?
IMHO this is THE job for our newly begun century.
And Jackal, - back to the farming..
"Get a bucket with a nipple on it. Let the calf do what comes naturaly. Not a problem if you are smarter than the calf."
I was about the first in the country to completely convert to systems like that some 13 years ago. Today I have a feeding system (machine) where I can program the quantity for each and every calf, and monitor the usage.
So, buckets with nipples come as secondary (they're a pain to deal with if you do long time feeding, so you're dealing with 400 lb's calves
) Anyway, fun to correspnd with someone that is into those things.
(smilie
for that one)
As for this:
"As far a s I have read on the subject of the undersea volcanoes, it has not been mentioned that they were either near the poles or were newly established."
It has been mentioned by certain members on these threads as a possible explanation to the ice melting. However, any connection with realism has failed....
Getting to Yellowstone, the whole thing is sitting on top of a highly active area, much like we have where I live. With modern technology and (cough, - government supported scientists even!) and equipment, the mapping of magma pockets and release sites is making good process.
There is no connection between there and global warming, in the real life there should slowly be less and less activity (cooling planet), and anyway, there is NOTHING we can do to stop volcanic activity. We can monitor changes (those darned scientists eating my tax money), we can get to the level of issuing warnings of eruptions some little time before they occure(talking about 100% probability here), and we can try tohold back flowing lava with cooling. This is all opposite to Lazs's philosophy of course, but has however proved itself worthy in countries that deal with high earth activity on a daily basis.
This one:
"Why is everything else shunned and put down when it is suggested or proposed by someone out of the AlBore loop?"
Get this. Al Gore did not invent or spot global warning. He however made a film about it. Oil companies, which have high interests in CO2 connection with warming being hushed, have countered by paying people to speak as supporters to the opposite.
In the meantime, the shunning and putting down happens by itself, for after all, the globe keeps locally warming
