interesting read on climate change...

[mistaballoonhands]

Right. But cholesterol lowering bottled water might be an option.

That's my idea. All rights reserved.

Fuck yeah

 

[miplank]

Frac off

 

[UA_Iron]

By page 7 i feel like I cant even add anything of substance to threads like this that wouldn't be overlooked


global warming made a lot of people rich.

100 years of the "average" temp being higher than usual is statistically insignificant in the grand scheme of cyclical climate change periods. Who cares?

Association and causation are tough to separate

 

[kx250rider]

Yeah its not a perfect analogy, but information on cholesterol gives us probabilities for future problems. For example we can know that a person with lipid profile X has 5 times the likelihood of having a heart attack compared with a person with lipid profile Y. It doesn't predict the future for every case, but is very accurate for knowing the overall health of certain populations.

Anecdotes about guys with high cholesterol or smokers who live a long time are just as stupid as anecdotes about global warming isn't real because it is cold today.

Likewise it would be stupid to smoke or ignore a cholesterol problem based on anecdotal evidence, just like it would be stupid to ignore the danger of our continued disruption of the environment.

For smoking, cholesterol, and global warming, the risks are known. there are scientific ways of looking at data that allows us to make accurate predictions, and we have the data.

And by the way, cardiovascular risk of high triglycerides is more complicated, and an interesting topic, but completely different than cholesterol.

I'm with you on this, in a way: It's stupid or foolish to do unnecessary things that we know have the potential of being harmful (to our bodies or to the environment), but there is moderation in all things. In other words, if we're wanting to do our part to prevent unnecessary ozone damage, we can choose to ride a bike to work on a nice day, or we can choose to eat a salad and a plant-based protein when it's convenient and we're watching cholesterol. But we shouldn't have to feel guilty for driving a truck to work if we have to drop off a new refrigerator in a terrible storm, nor should we feel guilty about cholesterol if our Grandma invites us over for home-made chili and pot roast once in awhile. And my personal contribution to environmentalism is that in 46 years, I have never littered, and I pick up other peoples' litter. That doesn't affect the ozone layer one way or the other, but it offsets the Prius drivers who litter regularly out their windows.

But today being Earth Day, I'll have to be disobedient and and use our 15,000-lb flatbed truck to pick up a gum wrapper I saw on the highway at the other end of the county yesterday, then I'll get in the 53,000-lb Cat 963 track loader and use a few dozen gallons of Diesel to bury the gum wrapper in an illegal landfill

Charles

 

[ismaele00]

The Economist, is know for being a quite/pretty Climate Change-warmer. On March they published that,

*Climate Science: a sensitive matter

It's interesting, let me copy just the intro:
The climate may be heating up less in response to greenhouse-gas emissions than was once thought. But that does not mean the problem is going away

Like saying, we're doing the idiot, yes, but we're using money from taxes so, let's keep doing it...

 

[redsamurai]

let 's buy $6 trillion worth of Crestor every year and put it in the water supply.

Oafish and slow, peeps is way ahead of you.

Published March 10, 2008

Study Finds Traces of Drugs in Drinking Water in 24 Major U.S. Regions | Fox News

 

[mrplunkey]

Fuck yeah

Wow. Just wow.

I had used the idea of Crestor in the drinking water as an example of an absurd solution to a real-world problem and our resident liberals ran with it. It does make it easier to understand why they buy-into ridiculous global warming remedies like cap-and-trade.

Maybe I can sell them on the idea of putting fludarabine in the water too. That way, anyone who happens to have leukemia can get treatment as well. After all, you can't be too careful when it comes to these things.

 

[billfred]

Yeah you could buy that civic but you'd have nowhere to fill it up.
Infrastructure needs to grow before NG vehicles will be an attractive option for most people. Its a great option, and it would be nice if it was a more practical option right now.

If you are just using it for the city, you can buy a compressor to fill it up at your house every night. What could be more convenient than that?

If you are going cross country, there is enough filling stations on interstates to get you there. just can wing it like you can with petrol.

 

[miplank]

we have a local place that you can fill NG vehicles

 

[redsamurai]

I should have known the multi-layer troll was too complex for you. The plunkster from a couple years ago would have taken his base on ball 4 but like mighty casey you decided you weren't gonna risk strike 3 crossing that plate huh?

Wow. Just wow.

I had used the idea of Crestor in the drinking water as an example of an absurd solution to a real-world problem and our resident liberals ran with it. It does make it easier to understand why they buy-into ridiculous global warming remedies like cap-and-trade.

Maybe I can sell them on the idea of putting fludarabine in the water too. That way, anyone who happens to have leukemia can get treatment as well. After all, you can't be too careful when it comes to these things.