5 Mile long landslide in Alaska

[CAP1]

if you're going to copy'n'paste at least cite the source ...

 customer came in, and my mechanic came up front for the next car as i was doing that......

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/opinion/25lynch.html?pagewanted=all

[icepac]

Many of the early wells put in the gulf of mexico drilled in the 1940s.........haven't run dry yet.

It won't be supply issues that will cause gas prices to rise.

[CAP1]

i had also talked to people that were supposedly there at wells in texas that had supposedly been dry for years. for whatever reason, they supposedly fired up the pumps, and supposedly oil came out.

[RTHolmes]

from the NYT opinion piece (3yrs ago now):

Oil remains abundant, and the price will likely come down closer to the historical level of $30 a barrel as new supplies come forward in the deep waters off West Africa and Latin America, in East Africa, and perhaps in the Bakken oil shale fields of Montana and North Dakota.

$30 a barrel? in the 3yrs since he wrote this, its settled at what looks like the new equilibrium price of $75-80. since his prediction was off by some 300% I'm not convinced he has a very good handle on it ...

[Chalenge]

The global climate is easy to model when only three basic factors are involved. Anyone who is a sceptic on man made climate change needs to take a step back and look at what really dictates the earths temperature.

See my post on magnetosphere and solar maximum. To think that man (even all of humankind) can influence global temperature is as ridiculous as carnies selling rain machines.

[Hajo]

You know I have to laugh.  At our own self agrandizement and arogance.  We think we know everything.  We think we know enough about everything.

We've had higher education...according to todays standards (College etc.)  May I remind you the Egyptians built pyramids and aligned them geometerically
on point with constellations.  We have no idea how they did it.  Same thing in south america, machu pichu, a city built on the position of the sun to signify
the first day of spring.  How'd they do that?  No one can explain for certain how.  So now we are so arogant as to believe without fact that WE are the cause of
global warming when global warming and cooling has been occuring for hundreds of thousands of years.  May I remind you those thought to be the most educated
and intelligent of the time said that..The Sun orbits the earth!  (well..er..um...wrong).  The most educated and intelligent also said that:  The earth is flat!"
Now we all know with fact that the earth has warmed and cooled many times over its' existance.  On its' own without our help.  We aren't even a blip on the history of this
earth or its' influence.  How long mankind been here???  Couple thousand years???  Hell Dinosaur flatulence had to be a bigger influence, they were here for millions!

Wake up........use common sense.  Is there anyone who can gain from our believeing we are the cause of heating??  Yup.
We as a group compared to time we've been here are absolutely nothing.  We don't know everything.  We aren't as smart as we think we are (past history) noted above.
Arogance and greed.....two shortcomings we've never and will never be able to overcome.  Quit taking yourself so seriously (me included) 


We don't know squat.

[Bruv119]

well said Hajo.

[Shuffler]

Ummm I know Squat. He's a short guy lives just down the street.