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2008-05-21 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

San Franciso to charge Global Warming Tax

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-05-21 17:11|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Glad to see California continuing to destroy their economy.

Dumbfarts.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-05-21 18:01|| 2008-05-21 18:01|| Front Page Top

#2 If any state destroys their own economy and seeks a bailout from the central government then it should revert to territorial status and purged of anyone involved in the process, especially to include reclaiming any pensions being paid.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-05-21 18:36|| 2008-05-21 18:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Glad to know San Francisco's economy will soon be based solely on selling tourist smoothies and giving each other reach arounds.

Posted by ed 2008-05-21 18:55|| 2008-05-21 18:55|| Front Page Top

#4 A thought struck me, a decidedly evil one, so I figured I had to share it at Rantburg, because they'd appreciate it here. The developmment of wave and wind power (which I for the record would love to see happen) are touted as one of the many 'solutions' to global warming. BUT - I wonder just how much of a monkey wrench you could throw into the works by pointing out in some scholarly-sounding fashion that since winds and waves striking a turbine must transfer energy to that turbine, taking energy from the system as a whole so that human energy needs will, over the course of time, leave us utterly becalmed, our seas stagnant. I'm no scientist, and I'm quite certain that the notion is utter poppycock, but you could sell it to a pretty fair number of ignoramuses like me who would tout it as gospel. Scary.

Posted by Colin MacDougall">Colin MacDougall 2008-05-21 19:57|| 2008-05-21 19:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Actually Colin, it has truth. Especially in orbital mechanics. Doing slingshot orbits to increase a probe's speed decreases the planet's speed some. Get 300 million probes slingshooting around Mars and you could see some slowdown. Movements for "Restore original rotation speed" might be as common as Global warming. People launching probes to use Mars to slowdown to restore the "balance".

hmmm.... where is my sci-fi notebook?

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-05-21 20:54|| 2008-05-21 20:54|| Front Page Top

#6 I read a serious plan some decades ago to add water to mars by guiding and crashing ice-laden comets into Mars, they were seriously debating whether to use the "Incoming", to speed up the planet's rotation, slow it down, or change it's orbit to a more "Habitable" one or a combination of he three.
(The idea was to Match Earth's orbit and climate/rotation)

Seems possible (if impractical) to me, just don't get it's orbit too close to ours.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-05-21 21:41|| 2008-05-21 21:41|| Front Page Top

#7 God, I can't wait for that earthquake...

Posted by tu3031 2008-05-21 21:52|| 2008-05-21 21:52|| Front Page Top

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