Weather and global warming

Rezrider · Post by **Rezrider** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 7:54 am

Wow, this got to 2 pages pretty quick and all the guy started by saying was that the weather was strange where he lives.
Is there not another location for peoples political rants to be shared?
Go to 'hot air' on BCP and rant over there.
I want to read about Maule flying here!

Mountain Doctor · Post by **Mountain Doctor** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 8:19 am

The climate is changing, as it always has been and always will be. Warmer, colder, both, or neither; it is changing.

It is what it is. I neither care about the changing nor believe there is anything we can or should do about it.

I'm off this rock in another 30 years or so. My condolences to those with kids but they will figure it out just like we figured out what to do with the lot our parents handed us.

I believe in being good stewards of the resources and beauty that the Lord gave us, but our govenment(s) and their carbon credits can take a leap off the glacier as far as I'm concerned.

Indeed, as a resident of the beautiful American Northwest, I wish there really was global warming. I miss the palm trees I so loved when I was home in California.

Mountain Doctor · Post by **Mountain Doctor** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 8:20 am

BTW, if someone knows how, and Chris (the original poster) does not mind this should probably be moved to the 'Nothing to do with flying' forum.

Undaunted · Post by **Undaunted** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 8:29 am

Global warming...the scapegoat that it is...

Mr President recently blamed Global Warming for his daughters asthma attack when she was younger...hhmmm this is the same man that smokes like a chimney (and yes unlike global warming, cigarette smoke in the house HAS been associated with childhood asthma)....yep again global warming strikes....

chris erasmus · Post by **chris erasmus** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 8:47 am

Mountain Doctor wrote:BTW, if someone knows how, and Chris (the original poster) does not mind this should probably be moved to the 'Nothing to do with flying' forum.

I really don't mind, and BTW, if you need palm trees and sunny skies and great flying weather, come visit me in SA,

Mountain Doctor · Post by **Mountain Doctor** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 8:53 am

chris erasmus wrote:
Mountain Doctor wrote:BTW, if someone knows how, and Chris (the original poster) does not mind this should probably be moved to the 'Nothing to do with flying' forum.
I really don't mind, and BTW, if you need palm trees and sunny skies and great flying weather, come visit me in SA,

I have every intention of doing that someday, Chris.

chris erasmus · Post by **chris erasmus** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 8:58 am

You are most welcome MD. I might see you in February next year, need to get a FAA endorsement for my SA Licence, will have to do a medical with you

pilot · Post by **pilot** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 6:34 pm

Just one thing to remember about how thorough some doctors are Chris - prostate exam is NOT supposed to be a part of the flight physical. Also the prostate exam should only be one hand on your shoulder, so if it is both hands on the shoulder then something isn't right.

chris erasmus · Post by **chris erasmus** » Thu Apr 16, 2015 12:57 am

pilot wrote:Just one thing to remember about how thorough some doctors are Chris - prostate exam is NOT supposed to be a part of the flight physical. Also the prostate exam should only be one hand on your shoulder, so if it is both hands on the shoulder then something isn't right.

i always wondered about that

Mountain Doctor · Post by **Mountain Doctor** » Thu Apr 16, 2015 8:43 am

My blonde nurse does that part. She bills extra.

chris erasmus · Post by **chris erasmus** » Thu Apr 16, 2015 9:22 am

Money I am happy to spend

cs409 · Post by **cs409** » Thu Apr 16, 2015 11:07 am

last time i got a medical exam in washington st. was an exit exam at ft. lewis,,,,,,,,,, trust me, it was not a female checking me

P.S. didnt get a finger wave, thank goodness and God.

crbnunit · Post by **crbnunit** » Thu Apr 16, 2015 12:00 pm

My take on climate change. Is the planet warming up? Yes. The evidence is overwhelming. Are we causing it? I don't know. Unlikely, but we are certainly not helping.

That said, we are causing changes to our environment on a global scale. We are fishing our oceans dry. We are causing species to become extinct. We are stripping our forests and defoliating our planet.

We know what we are doing is harmful and wrong. Do we need to change? Yes. Do we need to change overnight? No, but we need to be taking steps in that direction.

DonLindsay · Post by **DonLindsay** » Fri Apr 17, 2015 1:28 am

Well, ***. I AM a scientist, and here you guys go stepping on my toes. I don't want a fight, but I'm not going to be silent.

No, the world hasn't been getting warmer for thousands of years. We currently get an Ice Age every 100,000 years - yes, we know why it's that number and not some other number. And we're in the tail end of an "interglacial" period. The climate has been getting colder for the last few thousand years, not warmer.I'm not talking theory, I'm talking evidence. Winter was coming.

If you want to think that you're Real Smart, OK, fine, go for it. But let's be clear that in the scientific community the debate has been over, and I mean OVER, for a dozen years now. When I say "the scientific community", I don't mean a hundred climate guys, or a thousand. I mean all the science professors in all the colleges in the world. I mean all the physicists in Japan, and all the chemists in China, and all the astronomers in Australia, and all the geologists in Spain. Not quite a million people, and 99% of them didn't have a horse in this race.

If you want to argue, let's take it to mail.

grub · Post by **grub** » Fri Apr 17, 2015 4:50 am

Thanks Don. Seems like when politics get involved in an idea, all the data gets thrown out (or edited) to make a passionate point. Its more important to be right than be correct. It surprises me the shear number of people that will rally behind an idea or theory as if its the gospel without any reliable data to back it up. Then, once the idea is proven wrong, the unwillingness to accept being wrong. I guess some powerful people behind these ideas have a lot of money at stake. Money and power seems to be the common repeatable attributes at the root of these ideas.

Weather and global warming

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