Icelanding Volcano and Moralizing about the environment

[wyly]

"Harmful emissions"? Carbon Dioxide is food for plants. Grade 6 science. Look it up.

CO2 is a toxin, at levels higher than 5% it can kill you in minutes...no science knowledge needed... Look it up...

[JerrySeinfeld]

"Good" is a value judgement...the planet doesn't play such foolish games.

Exactly - the volcano was a natural occurence. So Sid and Nancy do gooder green just bought a new hybrid and then some icelandic volcano singlehandedly doubles the carbon footprint of a mid-sized industrial nation in a matter of minutes.

And we have control? Not. The planet will be fine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOOc5yiIWkg&feature=related

[bush_cheney2004]

That's because the planet is a ball of dirt and water.

...and it shall remain so long after we are gone....until real global warming starts.

[waldo]

...with responses from the tiny moth who can't resist the global warming flame.

wait... what is that I hear... is that the unmistakable sound of the Bush_Cheney grasshopper?

[bush_cheney2004]

wait... what is that I hear... is that the unmistakable sound of the Bush_Cheney grasshopper?

Bravo....you have learned the difference between a grasshopper and a cricket!

[JerrySeinfeld]

The arrogance (to use your term) is in the belief that we as a species can do anything we want, and in particular that we can waste and pollute with no repercussion whatsoever.

I don't see it as arrogant to choose a 4 hour voyage versus 4 days just because I want to go visit aunt Betty in Vermont.

That's the problem with envirronmentalists - they think living a decent life is a sin.

Guilt is their middle name. Again - self hating.

How about this: relax. The world is doing fine.

Edited April 25, 2010 by JerrySeinfeld

[waldo]

Exactly - the volcano was a natural occurence. So Sid and Nancy do gooder green just bought a new hybrid and then some icelandic volcano singlehandedly doubles the carbon footprint of a mid-sized industrial nation in a matter of minutes.

And we have control? Not. The planet will be fine.

buddy, if a single lil' ole Prius sends you over the edge, just how do you/how will you cope with more of the targeted and focused carbon emission reduction measures?

[waldo]

Bravo....you have learned the difference between a grasshopper and a cricket!

ya ya, you emulate your namesakes very well... never... ever... admit a mistake

what do you know - you can't even tell a cricket from a grasshopper! What's the matter... when you look at that linked to pic labeled "Bush Cricket", what do you see? Here: try it again... Bush Cricket

[bush_cheney2004]

ya ya, you emulate your namesakes very well... never... ever... admit a mistake

What matters is that now even you know the difference...everybody else already passed that test years aqo.

Edited April 25, 2010 by bush_cheney2004

[waldo]

I don't see it as arrogant to choose a 4 hour voyage versus 4 days just because I want to go visit aunt Betty in Vermont.

That's the problem with envirronmentalists - they think living a decent life is a sin.

Guilt is their middle name. Again - self hating.

How about this: relax. The world is doing fine.

given that unhealthy knuckle-draggers fixation you have... is anyone/everyone who might presume to give consideration to their personal choices, one of the catch-all that you labeled as "left-wing enviros"?

[wyly]

given that unhealthy knuckle-draggers fixation you have... is anyone/everyone who might presume to give consideration to their personal choices, one of the catch-all that you labeled as "left-wing enviros"?

my bro-in-law is thinking of running for nomination for the conservatives either as a MP or MLA if either of the two now holding those seats steps down...he's going to love it when I call him a left wing enviro, he has no idea that his acceptance of AGW makes him a leftists, liberal, socialist, commie, pinko, enviro wingnut treehugger..

[waldo]

Bravo....you have learned the difference between a grasshopper and a cricket!

ya ya, you emulate your namesakes very well... never... ever... admit a mistake

what do you know - you can't even tell a cricket from a grasshopper! What's the matter... when you look at that linked to pic labeled "Bush Cricket", what do you see? Here: try it again... Bush Cricket

What matters is that now even you know the difference...everybody else already passed that test years aqo.

one should never hesitate to squander any opportunity you present - that you quite literally cherish the inability of your namesakes to admit their mistakes... that you quite openly emulate that quality, is certainly worth any tangential, albeit trivial, thread scope-creep. Carry on!

[bush_cheney2004]

one should never hesitate to squander any opportunity you present -

Tomorrow, we will teach waldo about Katydids:

http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/walker/buzz/katydids.htm

Edited April 25, 2010 by bush_cheney2004

[waldo]

Tomorrow, we will teach waldo about Katydids:

until you graduate from your failure to distinguish crickets from grasshoppers, your presumed teaching credentials have been revoked. Just back away gracefully... I see no need to humble you further!

[bush_cheney2004]

until you graduate from your failure to distinguish crickets from grasshoppers, your presumed teaching credentials have been revoked. Just back away gracefully... I see no need to humble you further!

"When you can take the pebble from my hand, it will be time for you to leave."

Waldo has learned from the Master Kan.

[CANADIEN]

I don't see it as arrogant to choose a 4 hour voyage versus 4 days just because I want to go visit aunt Betty in Vermont.

That's the problem with envirronmentalists - they think living a decent life is a sin.

Guilt is their middle name. Again - self hating.

How about this: relax. The world is doing fine.

Wice to see we can always count on you to make a fool of yourself.

The arrogance is not in choosing flying over driving (although driving is usually more enjoyable). It is in the "We are not responsible for what we do, so who cares if we harm our environment" attitude.

And there is nothing self-hating in assuming responsbility for what we do and trying to do things better. On the contrary.

BTW: Alife is not more (or less) decent from the angle of material confort because someone chooses to fly to Vermont instead of driving.

[eyeball]

We imagine ourselves its master and yet with one modest belch it hems us into our little island, sweeping instantly from the skies the aeroplane, which we consider to be an example of the irrepressible genius of our species.”

Recall how a small handful of box cutters also swept the skies of air traffic.