I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

My head is spinning!  I am way too blonde to make sense out of anything that is complex.  I like to stick to simple things   Maybe that is why I could never be an alti - too much information to process.  I will stick around with my ambien, lorazepam and percocet if you don't mind.

Blue, pft! I have a friend who also had two pregnancies 18 months apart, but with twins each time.



For the rest of you lovely pinko-communist vegetarian hoodlums, that the climate is heating up appears fairly well established as a fact, but the man-made aspect of it IS still somewhat controversial and not necessarily a sure thing.



We have some cousins who do various "biznez" and who have a connection to Indonesia. Around the time of the climate summit in Copenhagen (In Danish a summit is called a "top meeting," but that meeting was quickly dubbed the "bottom meeting," but I digress), the cousins were in high gear trying to break into the carbon credits business using Indonesia as a base. Giant scam.



What I don't get is why people refuse to believe the heating part just because the man-made part is controversial. The heating part is already having an impact in various ways, and we would do well to have some contingency plans for the various possible outcomes.



What I also don't get is why people are opposed to sustainable and clean energy. That just seems silly. Denmark currently covers 20% of its electricity supply with wind mills. What is not to like?



Anyway, sorry for the small rant, back to the cocktails. They are advertising vermouth these days as a mixer with sparkling wine. It looks enticing.

Good for the Gates for using their money to improve the world.

Glenda -   Wishing for NED to reenter your life in short order.

Momine: I will agree that there is controvery over the question of whether the warming of the earth is man-made, but I believe that controversy tends to be economically and religiously driven rather than scientific.  Hence my hilarious - or not so much - satire about wanting the media to show both sides of the question of whether the earth rounds the sun or is flat = and dissing Galilleo.  He was really controversial, but not because the science didn't back him, but because his science didn't fit in with the religious theories of the day.   

The problem with our media today is that it's a lot easier and better tv to put on two people to argue an issue rather than to actually investigate the truth.  It makes it look balanced, even if the issue shouldn't be balanced, because there is close to scientific agreement on the question.  When 97 percent of the scientists who study climate change believe that human activity is the main stimulant to the current warming, it is really not a balanced view to dig up someone funded by the oil companies, stuck him on tv to counter a climatologist who states the prevailing view of the science, and make it look as if there is a even split in the scientific community, when there is not. 

I'm with you on planning for the warming, no matter what, and with switching to alternative fuels.   

I just love being a pinko-commie-vegetarian hoodlum.  Hey, that's a great name for a band.

alexandria - tee, hee...I'm thinking of walking to the end of the flat earth, just to see what's at the end...loved your post!

Gangstas - that's the word I was trying to remember - gangstas- on their rainbow spangled scooters....with pinkie commie banners haning off the handlebars, and playing cars on the spokes to make noise (are there spokes on scooters) - must be getting it all confused, probably the earth tilted when I woke up

Off to painting class - happy sunflower sunny day to all

Hey KAM, I think ACA got burned because we veered too much into a political vein. Probably that was inevitable considering the nature of the discussion. My post might have been the final nail in the proverbial coffin. But hey, we can just continue the conversation here!

Scoot - the Repubs aren't fiscal conservatives, unless they think they can use the issue to bash the Dems.   Don't step away from the caffeine - it fights Alzheimers.

Top to the morning to my fellow pinko-commie vegetarian gangstas.

Oops.  should I edit out my blatantly political comment and return to the snide use of satire and innuendo?

Good morning from Seattle. That theory about the color of the sky being blue is once again disproved here in the city of clouds - but we are hoping for ... No the train just came out from under the gray stuff and I detect this unusually large and yellow orb in the sky. It seems warm. I bet THAT is the source of this infernal gloal warming. Everyone here in Seattle knows it's supposed to be a balmy 55 degrees all summer, but we've been topping 70 with rumors of possible 80. Global warming indeed!

I've looked at clouds from both sides now, and I really don't know clouds at all.

Clouds in my coffee...clouds in my coffee...

You're so insane...I bet you think this post is about you...



Isn't that how the song goes?

It's "you're so vain" but insane works for me! ROFL 

Vain - I think - but insane works too.