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Post by nonentropic on Feb 27, 2015 3:04:47 GMT
I have always wanted a bridge, its not from London by any chance Sig?
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Post by missouriboy on Feb 27, 2015 4:27:35 GMT
Since I grew aware of how much climate change impacts our lives, I've tried to implement a more greener lifestyle. And my ideas are even reaching my wife, parents and even some friends. However, I would like to know what you are doing to fight the climate change. Here it is a list of the changes I've already done: 1 - I only use my car in the weekends and only if I need to. I travel to work by bus. 2 - I'm cutting off the red meat from all my meals. 3 - I don't use plastic bags anymore. When I go to the supermarket I use a cloth bag. To finish, I'll leave here a post with tips to help stop the climate change: abcofsolar.com/10-simple-things-you-can-do-to-help-the-world-climate/ Looking forward to your answers! I replaced my aging gas-fired furnace in a well-insulated 1950s 1800 ft2 home with a vertically-drilled ground-source geothermal heating and cooooooooling system. It was 1/3 paid for by YOUR tax dollars. I'm now all electric with a back-up gas-fired furnace. I didn't do it because I thought it was going to get lots warmer....I did it to save money ... and I save money whether it gets warmer OR colder. Engineering estimates suggested a seven year payback and the drilled-in copper assemblages are warrantied for twenty. I'm saving buku $. To offset my green leanings I drive a BIG truck with a BIG, LONG, SHARP trailer hitch. It scares hell out of tailgating liberals. On my softer side, I love plants and little coral critters. The later are going to enjoy a cooler climate as they won't bleach as much. As to the former, I symbiose with them ... I exhale ... they inhale ... they exhale ... I inhale ... very refreshing. And its practically free!
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Post by sigurdur on Feb 27, 2015 4:54:29 GMT
I have always wanted a bridge, its not from London by any chance Sig? No, this bridge is built to Upper Midwest specs. It can take ice flows........
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Post by sigurdur on Feb 27, 2015 4:54:55 GMT
Sig, You spoke to Christopher Field? No, I talked to Dr. Feldman
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Post by walnut on Feb 27, 2015 4:55:09 GMT
I planted several pecan and walnut trees. Real ones, not credits on an exchange.
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Post by sigurdur on Feb 27, 2015 4:58:18 GMT
I planted black walnut trees too walnut. Dog gone things tho.......need the press to crack those suckers and that is a slow process. Last year, two of the older trees gave us 140# of walnuts. One tree really took a beating in the wind. Two major branches broke, and now before the sap starts rising I will cut them off, and hopefully get the trunk sealed good enough.
Wonderful beautiful trees!
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Post by walnut on Feb 27, 2015 5:04:32 GMT
They take a long time to grow, but they are still a great tree. But if you didn't inherit the trees, you can almost forget about seeing mature ones.
Pecan trees seem to grow twice as fast, at least in our clay-ey river bottom soil in NE OK.
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Post by sigurdur on Feb 27, 2015 5:06:51 GMT
They take a long time to grow, but they are still a great tree. But if you didn't inherit the trees, you can almost forget about seeing mature ones. Pecan trees seem to grow twice as fast, at least in our clay-ey river bottom soil in NE OK. We planted the two older ones about 20 years ago. They are now about 25' tall. Yes,slow growing but magnificent trees. Told the kids that they are their money tree. When they get old, the trees should be big enough to harvest. A big black walnut brings big bucks the last I knew?
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Post by icefisher on Feb 27, 2015 5:09:26 GMT
I have always wanted a bridge, its not from London by any chance Sig? Nope that one was bought and installed by Lake Havasu City, Arizona
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Post by missouriboy on Feb 27, 2015 5:29:49 GMT
I planted black walnut trees too walnut. Dog gone things tho.......need the press to crack those suckers and that is a slow process. Last year, two of the older trees gave us 140# of walnuts. One tree really took a beating in the wind. Two major branches broke, and now before the sap starts rising I will cut them off, and hopefully get the trunk sealed good enough. Wonderful beautiful trees! Absolutely...we've got many on the old family farm. One OLD one up by the remnants of the old house ...dad said that if he ever sold it, he'd sell it by the pound ... got lots of lead in it ... big family with firearms. And shagbark hickories ... lots of nuts. I've thought about harvesting them ... but then I'd have to fight the 50 pound squirrels. And these are Rebel squirrels!
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Post by oldbox on Feb 27, 2015 6:13:28 GMT
If you look at the data- where the CO2 is coming from over the past many years it is China. They have built hundreds of coal fired power plants and have been producing more CO2 than the USA sense 2008-09. If you want to effect climate change do NOT BUY anything made in China. I have been following this policy for years. It is hard to do, sometimes the item you need only is made in China, but nothing else will work. Nothing we do in the USA can drop CO2 enough to overcome what China is already producing to day let alone in 5 or 10 years. To prove this just look at the most recent data on CO2 emissions from China and subtract what USA in producing. We are toast and no one talks about China. Not eating Red meat may sound good and healthy but it does nothing about where the main source of CO2 is coming from and will be coming from- CHINA!!!!
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Post by douglavers on Feb 27, 2015 6:20:46 GMT
My contribution to climate change?
Let me see.
We don’t really know why ice ages start (although there is a strong suspicion that solar cycles and sea currents might contribute).
We don’t know why ice ages stop.
We don’t know why in past eras, the Arctic was a tropical paradise.
We do know that in the last million years, the world has been in an ice age for about 90% of the time. Interglacials never seemed to last more than about 11 thousand years. Anyone care to guess how long ago the Holocene started?
I think the ecological cycle (plants, animals, sea) turns over about 600 gigatons a year of carbon dioxide. The human race contributes about 8 gigatons.
Closer to home, China is opening enough coal-fired power stations every year to at least equal Australia’s entire annual output of carbon dioxide.
In the face of this mountain of known unknowns, unknown unknowns, and simple ignorance, one thing I’m absolutely certain about, is that any contribution I can make to climate change is insignificant on any scale.
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Post by Ratty on Feb 27, 2015 11:55:55 GMT
If you look at the data- where the CO2 is coming from over the past many years it is China. They have built hundreds of coal fired power plants and have been producing more CO2 than the USA sense 2008-09. If you want to effect climate change do NOT BUY anything made in China. I have been following this policy for years. It is hard to do, sometimes the item you need only is made in China, but nothing else will work. Nothing we do in the USA can drop CO2 enough to overcome what China is already producing to day let alone in 5 or 10 years. To prove this just look at the most recent data on CO2 emissions from China and subtract what USA in producing. We are toast and no one talks about China. Not eating Red meat may sound good and healthy but it does nothing about where the main source of CO2 is coming from and will be coming from- CHINA!!!! Oldbox, are you assuming that anthropogenic CO2 is a problem?
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Post by nonentropic on Feb 27, 2015 19:02:07 GMT
This is simply racism.
CO2 is likely to be fertilizer but not a reason to express a dislike for a group of people.
These types of thinking are precursors to concentration camps.
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Post by oldbox on Feb 28, 2015 5:52:48 GMT
Actually no. Yes we are contributing to the production of CO2 but I do believe there are many cause and effect issues we do not understand such as the solar cycle. I have though argued with my Pro Global Warming, CO2 is destroying the earth, etc. friends that if this is what you truly believe, the USA is not the problem. It is China and secondarily India are the main polluters and will be even more so in the future. I do not buy from China as an economic choice to not support a "polluting" and totalitarian country in general. The power plants they have built will be polluting the earth, generating black carbon that is injected into the upper atmosphere and settles on the Arctic Ice cap that promotes it's melting. The issue to me is to help environmentalist understand that if CO2 is important to them, USA and anything we do here is not the problem, it is China. Going green, reducing ones carbon foot print may sound good "I am doing my part" etc. but in reality has little to no effect. If 10% or 20% of the USA truly stop buying items from China this will have an effect I assure you. The current solutions the environmental movement suggest for USA to do is all about making us feel better. It is all about "feeling good" as opposed to "doing good".
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