I had a quite amusing exchange in her comments, following up on a mention of the odds of a coming ice-age, and that given the odds of an eventual glacier advance stands at about one in one (the geologic record is pretty clear on that), an ice age should be considered long before most of the loony hypotheticals being bandied about by “scientists.”
The amusing part was that the alarmists tried to utterly dismiss a return of the glaciers, citing junk science that said it was impossible with CO2 levels abvoe 230 ppm (the Earth has entered glaciation periods with CO2 above 4,000 ppm), and then argued that removing the snow and ice would be trivial, as if all the required heavy equipment was free, along with the diesel fuel, salt, burners, explosives (one idiot pointed out that his friend does avalanche control so moving hundreds of feet of snow is easy – as if our cities are bolted to the sides of mountains). Another said that farmers would easily solve any problem with snow covering their fields, because they’re resourceful. I pointed out that farmers don’t even try to farm northern Canada. When the temperature gets very low, we don’t try to melt snow, we just shuffle it around to clear the streets. When the snow gets too deep for that we give up and try to drive on top of it. It’s not something we can easily cope with.
If was fun to watch a bunch of alarmists go into deep, deep climate denial, just because the threat isn’t that the weather is too darn nice.
I had a quite amusing exchange in her comments, following up on a mention of the odds of a coming ice-age, and that given the odds of an eventual glacier advance stands at about one in one (the geologic record is pretty clear on that), an ice age should be considered long before most of the loony hypotheticals being bandied about by “scientists.”
The amusing part was that the alarmists tried to utterly dismiss a return of the glaciers, citing junk science that said it was impossible with CO2 levels abvoe 230 ppm (the Earth has entered glaciation periods with CO2 above 4,000 ppm), and then argued that removing the snow and ice would be trivial, as if all the required heavy equipment was free, along with the diesel fuel, salt, burners, explosives (one idiot pointed out that his friend does avalanche control so moving hundreds of feet of snow is easy – as if our cities are bolted to the sides of mountains). Another said that farmers would easily solve any problem with snow covering their fields, because they’re resourceful. I pointed out that farmers don’t even try to farm northern Canada. When the temperature gets very low, we don’t try to melt snow, we just shuffle it around to clear the streets. When the snow gets too deep for that we give up and try to drive on top of it. It’s not something we can easily cope with.
If was fun to watch a bunch of alarmists go into deep, deep climate denial, just because the threat isn’t that the weather is too darn nice.
Give ’em hell, George!