M1911 Loc: DFW Metromess

They won't tell us what the perfect climate is.

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

bikinkawboy Loc: north central Missouri

Just the other night one of my girls said, "There's SO many whiny men out there!" She's learned from me that you don't slack off, you don't whine and you put your wife and kids first. I had open heart surgery 2 months ago and less than 3 weeks after surgery I was chaining up and loading logs. I was careful to keep from cracking my chest bone back apart and yes I was slower than normal, but that setting around feeling sorry for myself business isn't for me.

Photography is a great way to relax. If the day's been rough, grab the camera, go for a walk and if you find something interesting, shoot it. That's the wonderful thing about digital; you can go crazy shooting and simply delete the junk. One time I was shooting close up reflections of objects in dew drops, which leaves a paper thin field of focus. I took over 200 shots, kept 6 and really consider only 2 or so as being worthy. In the "good old days" of film, those two keepers would have cost me over $100 each.

kenArchi Loc: Seal Beach, CA

Why is it you do not worry, and are calm. Says my wife. Yes I do worry, but I don't readily show it.
If I can fix it I will fix it. If can't I can't, then I get someone who knows how to fix it. Or replace it.

Old Coot

Yes. You can almost drown in that stuff

kenArchi Loc: Seal Beach, CA

I am not sure what happened to the original subject.

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

Finally! Something we can agree on!!! I never thought I would see the day.

AirWalter Loc: Tipp City, Ohio

I wonder what they are going to do with all the dead battery's from these electric cars.

clint f. Loc: Priest Lake Idaho, Spokane Wa

1965 the worry was an impending ice age.

DaleBrown

Interesting statements about geothermal. We had a geo system installed when we built our home. Great benefits from it included forced air heat and AC, domestic hot water and hydronic in-floor heat in the basement.
This was all great until problems with the system arose and we needed service. Very very few installers and service people for it. Regular HVAC people will not touch this system. You are correct, with all the talk of energy savings and environmental issues there is never any talks about geo sourced heating and cooling.
We spent a great deal of money for this system and we were greatly disappointed with support for geo system service. We have since installed very high efficiency furnace and AC. Our geo system is still present for domestic hot water and hydronic heat, but we cannot find anyone in our area that will roll their sleeves up to service it.

bikinkawboy Loc: north central Missouri

Everything has a cost. Sometimes it’s on the front end and other times the tail end. You can charge your emission free electric car with “green” wind turbine electricity. What people don’t know is how many birds die annually from the blades of each turbine. Missouri department of conservation did a study a few years back but I forget the numbers. The turbine blades are made from fiberglass, which requires energy for mining sand and turning it into glass fibers. Steel is required for the structure and inside the “dog house “ massive amounts of copper are used in the generator windings, which must be mined. Check out the water pollution problems Butte Montana has from abandoned copper mines. Batteries require minerals be mined and energy be used to manufacture them. And then comes the disposal of the battery parts that can’t be recycled.

People driving electric cars are just as hard on the environment as are other drivers only they let people on each end do the polluting instead of them. That way they can feel good about themselves and criticize us conventional drivers as the ones doing the polluting.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Nothing in a conventional IC powered car or an electric vehicle is without a cost in energy to produce it, and both have to be disposed of in the end, and both require highway infrastructure. Everything involved in transportation and energy generation requires energy, whether to fuel the transportation or build the energy generation infrastructure, but one thing is certain. When we’ve mined the last of the coal and drilled the last of the oil and natural gas, we’re going to need an alternative energy source, or we’ll walk and freeze in the dark (and likely starve), so we better get with the program, because sure as chicken, there is an end to fossil fuels, whether it’s in our lifetime or not.

Reuss Griffiths Loc: Ravenna, Ohio

I guess I'd better identify myself as a climate denier up front. That would make anyone with opposing views a climate believer. I would ask you, do you really believe that if we don't act now, in 10 years it will be too late to avoid climate catastrophe. Given that we are one of the few nations that are actually reducing our carbon emissions and that China and India are going in the opposite direction big time, from a practical point of view, it's too late now. We might as well bend over and kiss our a**es goodbye.

Ever wonder why there are no positive effects of climate change only negative. Anything that happens is going to make things worse. The real world doesn't work that way. In the real world we weigh the benefits vs the risks and make rational decisions accordingly. In the climate believer's world, any risk no matter how small is worth any cost, no matter how large to fix. This is the way governments work. And the sad thing is, many of our fixes are actually going to make things worse, like switching to electric cars without a suitable source to power them. Nuclear power might but doesn't fit the agenda.

Much discussion here about the effects of volcanoes. The recent blast of the Tonga volcano was unique with wide ranging effects never seen before. Good thing it lasted only an hour instead of days like the others mentioned but it ain't done yet. But the volcano we should all be worried about is Yellowstone. It's a super volcano that erupts every 700,000 years and it hasn't erupted in 750,000 years. Just the blast will take out the western US and will probably cause nuclear winter for decades if not longer. And subterranean magma movement and other volcanic activity is more pronounced than we've seen before.

One last thought. Ever notice the similarity between climate change and the CoVid pandemic. A natural phenomenon is identified to be an emergency situation by our governments and they take increasing control to protect us from their predictions at the expense (literally and figuratively) of our natural rights and freedoms.

bikinkawboy Loc: north central Missouri

I liked your last paragraph

rlv567 Loc: Baguio City, Philippines

That's because he got it RIGHT!!!

I've lived in the Philippines for 6 years, now, and would not go back to the US even if I could afford it! Unless, that is, people come to their senses and throw out (almost literally) the radicals and their traitorous/disastrous agenda. There's a lot missing here, but I adapted easily, and do like it.

Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City