Polar ice caps are melting, Yay!, We're all going to drown Options

[Pisces]

In a series of events this week in New Zealand, there is now boat tours to go see (3) giant melting ice bergs of the coast of NZ. It started ages ago with 100 being spotted far South of NZ, a bit unusual but Antartica is South of NZ so ice isn't anything to get excited about, then early this week 2 had moved West of NZ and had scared fishing boats out there, plane trips had started to see them because they were quite close, then they moved within easy helicopter distance so even more trips came, then they moved within visible distance so bored West coast marijauna growers flocked to the beachs, now they are within a casual boat trip up close, with the larger one breaking into 2. This all leading to some cool video on the news here over the last few days, here is todays story, its an internet link so its horrible quality and half of it is talking to bored marijauna growers.

I'm tempted to drive down and watch global warming for the hell of it but I'm lazy and its just ice. It would be cool if they hit land, it should be impossible for the iceberg not to melt when approaching the coast but it wasn't supposed to go this far up and this close either.

[Pisces]

Global warming affects countries like Darfur the most and because Darfur isn't developed it doesn't have the ability to adapt to global warming like the countries which caused it can. Besides the stratergies combatting global warming exclude the third world anyway which is the given reason why the US doesn't sign up. Global warming->no Darfur to be developed.

And I am actaully working on the development of Darfur, they have a very potiential for renewable energy production (solar) which is being introduced by development agencies, fossil fuels won't help them develop unless you still believe neoliberalism.



And on the topic of the icebergs, there were more icebergs come up, Aussies decided to be checkie and put an Aussie flag on one because they "like stealing everything which belongs to the kiwis" (they said that), but what they didn't realise was the day before some Kiwis put a New Zealand flag on the largest iceberg. And Shreik the sheep (was the wooliest sheep in the world before it first got shaven to measure the wool, managed to get pretty wooly since then too) got shaven on one of the icebergs for random publicity. And the leader of a major right wing party resigned and got replace by someone who actaully believes in global warming so now about 85% of our parliament has global warming policy and the rest appart from the 3% party on the far right, say they believe in global warming but haven't developed a policy to combat it...now to wait 2 years for some policy to actaully be implimented.

This post has been edited by Pisces: Nov 30 2006, 02:43 AM

[Channler]

Global warming affects countries like Darfur the most and because Darfur isn't developed it doesn't have the ability to adapt to global warming like the countries which caused it can. Besides the stratergies combatting global warming exclude the third world anyway which is the given reason why the US doesn't sign up. Global warming->no Darfur to be developed.

And I am actaully working on the development of Darfur, they have a very potiential for renewable energy production (solar) which is being introduced by development agencies, fossil fuels won't help them develop unless you still believe neoliberalism.



And on the topic of the icebergs, there were more icebergs come up, Aussies decided to be checkie and put an Aussie flag on one because they "like stealing everything which belongs to the kiwis" (they said that), but what they didn't realise was the day before some Kiwis put a New Zealand flag on the largest iceberg. And Shreik the sheep (was the wooliest sheep in the world before it first got shaven to measure the wool, managed to get pretty wooly since then too) got shaven on one of the icebergs for random publicity. And the leader of a major right wing party resigned and got replace by someone who actaully believes in global warming so now about 85% of our parliament has global warming policy and the rest appart from the 3% party on the far right, say they believe in global warming but haven't developed a policy to combat it...now to wait 2 years for some policy to actaully be implimented.

Uh.. You mean like 20 years.. Remember I said something bad has to happen first? Icebergs are cool, wait till they sink a ship...

Anyways you would be silly to say though that the development of 3rd world countries (which is a outdated name anyways.. They do deserve better then that) could be done without fossil fuel. Sure maybe in a hundred years and lots of investment, but a simpler process will be used first and that process with need.. Gasoline.

At least, thats my idea.

As long as you don't believe that Rock for Darfur stuff works I'm all cool with your liberalness