hippiechick wrote: 
You're not alone.  Up here in Wisconsin, our rivers have been overflowing all summer long.  Flash floods have done everything from making my power go out to killing campers.  Entire towns have had to be moved or abandoned.  Seriously, I'm not making this up!  The WI DNR is considering expensive repairs and upgrades to its extensive levee system.

On the bright side, I live on top of a hill.

 hippiechick wrote: 
You've been rezoned!

It's getting hot up here

As climate change comes to Chicago, conservation groups anticipate future changes in local ecosystems

We've been changed from Zone 5 to Zone 6!

 Lazy8 wrote:
(warning: possible snark and sarcasm alert) 

I'm definitely skeptical of all involved. (I know this may surprise many here.)

I'm pretty sure the globe has been warming and cooling for billions of years, and I don't doubt that man has some effect on it. My big issue with all of this? The players financing it and the proposed solution. Anytime you see, the World Bank, the IMF, the UN (or any other entity financed by/with central banking) involved, you know the intentions are evil.

Seriously, we know these bankers have corrupted the science of economics mainly through politics and government/public education, they're doing the same thing here.

The Genoveses and the Gambinos, they're small potatoes (microscopic)  in comparison to the banking cartel.

 OlderThanDirt wrote: 
Indeed...

 Manbird wrote: 
The only real difference I see in his thinking has to to with the urgency, and the "tens of billions of dollars annually."  But wait, isn't he Danish?  Danes spend dollars?

 Lazy8 wrote: 
As has been I.

 miamizsun wrote:

In some of his earlier writings he was skeptical of some of the science, but he he has been convinced for quite a while.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
I could be mistaken, but I think he (a political scientist) has always acknowledged it.

I think his argument is that given "X" dollars he would have higher priorities (HIV, etc.)

I also believe he has, in the past, endorsed some unorthodox cost effective schemes that would help offset any change.

He's spoken at TED several times.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:  There's No urgency what so ever,already much to late for action,just keep on trucking !

Noted anti-global-warming scientist reverses course

With scientific data piling up showing that the world has reached its hottest-ever point in recorded history, global-warming skeptics are facing a high-profile defection from their ranks. Bjorn Lomborg, author of the influential tract "The Skeptical Environmentalist," has reversed course on the urgency of global warming, and is now calling for action on "a challenge humanity must confront."

 samiyam wrote:  Hmm..still,Canadian bacon doesn't agree with me,but you can add all the garlic you like,that I Iove !

 HazzeSwede wrote: 
True... if you add the Beakster, you need to add a lot of sugar and curry powder (heavy on the garlic) to adjust the taste!

 samiyam wrote:  Hold The Beakster,though !

 HazzeSwede wrote: 
Throw in a few onions and carrots... salt and pepper to taste... 

 samiyam wrote:  I knew that !
Always clean them up first !



Room for you too there,Beaks !

 Beaker wrote: 
"Never wrestle with a pig.  You both get dirty, the pig likes it."
  ~ Mark Twain ~

 Beaker wrote: 
his climate changed

Huge ice island could pose threat to oil, shipping

By KARL RITTER, Associated Press

STOCKHOLM (AP) — An island of ice more than four times the size of Manhattan is drifting across the Arctic Ocean after breaking off from a glacier in Greenland.

Potentially in the path of this unstoppable giant are oil platforms and shipping lanes - and any collision could do untold damage. In a worst case scenario, large chunks could reach the heavily trafficked waters where another Greenland iceberg sank the Titanic in 1912.

It's been a summer of near biblical climatic havoc across the planet, with wildfires, heat and smog in Russia and killer floods in Asia. But the moment the Petermann glacier cracked last week - creating the biggest Arctic ice island in half a century - may symbolize a warming world like no other.

"It's so big that you can't prevent it from drifting. You can't stop it," said Jon-Ove Methlie Hagen, a glaciologist at the University of Oslo.

Few images can capture the world's climate fears like a 100-square- mile (260-sqare-kilometer) chunk of ice breaking off Greenland's vast ice sheet, a reservoir of freshwater that if it collapsed would raise global sea levels by a devastating 20 feet (6 meters).

The world's newest ice island already is being used as a powerful emblem in the global warming debate, with U.S. Rep. Edward Markey of Massachusetts suggesting it could serve as a home for climate change skeptics. 

Researchers are in a scramble to plot the trajectory of the floating ice shelf, which is moving toward the Nares Strait separating Greenland's northwestern coast and Canada's Ellsemere Island.

If it makes it into the strait before the winter freeze - due to start next month - it would likely be carried south by ocean currents, hugging Canada's east coast until it enters waters busy with oil activities and shipping off Newfoundland.

"That's where it starts to become dangerous," said Mark Drinkwater, of the European Space Agency.

The Canadian Ice Service estimates the journey will take one to two years. It's likely to break up as it bumps into other icebergs and jagged islands. The fragments would be further ground down by winds and waves and would start to melt as they move into warmer waters.

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