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The Green Life: Do we have the willpower to slow climate change?
So just how far back do we need to turn the clock to save the planet, and do we have the discipline to do it? That’s the thought that came to me one day recently as I put a package of blueberries in the cart while shopping for groceries. Blueberries in winter aren’t how it used to be; it used to be that you got blueberries only during blueberry season. But modern man decided we wanted blueberries all year round, so we ship them in from around the world, via plane, ship, train and truck — and therein lies the problem: how big is the carbon footprint for fruit out of season, and are we willing to give that up to reduce fossil fuel consumption?
Fortunately, “climate change” has not only slowed, ie the 17 year pause, but stopped, with zero temperature rise during the 21st century, and some data shows a slight cooling. Second, I love how the opinion piece writer, Jimmy Buff, first says that getting blueberries out out season, getting them in winter no less, is strange, then acknowledges that they are shipped, but that’s evil because of the “carbon footprint” or a modern society.
Or course it isn’t just fruit out of season that we need to consider. What about trips in the car just for fun or for a quick errand? How about those extra few degrees to keep the house warmer instead of wearing a sweater? Or sweating through a heat wave instead of using the air conditioner or even a fan? Could you, if the future of mankind depended on it, give up these advances in technology?
Truth be told, I’m not sure I have the discipline necessary myself. I like modern conveniences. I like driving long distances to go run a race. As I drive, too, I see people talking on cellphones or texting (two of the least enforced traffic statutes it seems) despite knowing that those things are dangerous and distracting and contemplate the will needed to do the things we need to do in order to get to where we need to be to slow or stop climate change.
And there’s the point, a modern lifestyle is evil, so Other People need to be forced to give it up. Not the writer, of course, since he’s spreading awareness. And has no intention of doing anything himself.
In the early ’80s, Bob Dylan put out a song called “License to Kill.†Dylan sang: “Oh, man has invented his doom/First step was touching the moon,†and for years I wondered about that line. I’m not wondering anymore.
Yet, Warmists refuse to do more than make token changes in their lives. So why in the heck should we believe anything they tell us if they aren’t willing to put their beliefs into practice for their own lives?
The Pirate typed:
“Fortunately, “climate change†has not only slowed, ie the 17 year pause, but stopped, with zero temperature rise during the 21st century, and some data shows a slight cooling.”
Pirate: It would be good form to actually show or link to the data you use to support your outrageous claim above.
Commenter jaget80, (in a previous thread) supplied a most useful gadget (I was not aware of this) for examining the temperature trends using the available temperature records:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/trend.php
You should play around with it, varying the start years, and see if the actual evidence supports your claim that the Earth is no longer warming. You would be doing your own climate research!!
Since you did J, and since I showed you that the data does back us up, the fact that you continue to support our side is heartwarming. Thank you.
And btw, the data is out there. It is a consensus already. Therefore, you should support it now. Except this one has more data and proof on its side than the last one you blindly supported.
This “sentence”:
makes absolutely no sense. It has no proper construction and its point is all over the place. Granted, it’s a sign of the uncontrolled and fancy-filled mind of the writer, but at least the author could have, too, while I drive around town talking on cell phone. (see, that makes no sense does it?)
Also….. ummm… wild blueberries ARE a winter season fruit. They are harvested in the early part of winter because that is when they are the sweetest.
Here was the comment I left on his GW fear mongering:
You can go back to living in a mud hut. I will keep using my AC when I,want to got it, use my wood stove when I need to to stay warm, turn up the thermostat(not a NEST, no thanks) and drive where I NEED to. I do not drive much, I am a disabled orthopedic wrecking yard and need to stay cool year round. GW is bogus, and has been proven to be so. There has always been climate change and will be. I actually like to have power and not have to sell a family member to afford it. Coal and fossil fuels are not evil, the environmental lobby is and their commie friends at the EPA and in the white house. Here is a bit of proof on how GW has been rigged:
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/01/19/just-hit-the-noaa-motherlode/
I have no objections to intelligent ways and means to produce energy smartly but what I do object to is people like you and the gov’t forcing your ways upon me and the majority of Americans who could care less about the lie of GW. Go close yourself off in some Agenda 21 community where you have to peddle a bike for power, sit in a drum circle when the moon is full and howl with the rest of your earth muffin friends. Leave the rest of us alone.
BTW: I drive an older Jeep Grand Cherokee that gets about 18 MPG in town and 23 MPG on the highway. Not stinking Prius so I can make myself feel better about saving the planet from idiots like you.