It's Earth day

[B.L. Hall]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Miv4NHsDo

 

[rgp375]

Makes me want to go celebrate by burning a pile of tires to annoy the hippies.

 

[Huhwhat?]

Earth Day, an excuse for people to feel self-righteous and smug so they can throw their mcdonald's wrappers out the window and pour their used oil in the alley the other 364 days a year.

 

[GunnyGene]

Carlin was greatly under appreciated for his acute wisdom on many things. Thanks for posting that. :)

 

[Colonialgirl]

Obama FLEW on AF-1 DOWN to Florida to "celebrate" Earth Day; Wonder where he wanted to play golf THIS TIME.

 

[6gun]

Earth day O.....K :roll:

 

[Jimbo357mag]

...and I thought this might be a positive thread. ...oh well. Without 'ole CDFingers around we don't get much positive news about the planet anymore. Perhaps it's all downhill from here? :(

 

[vito]

I did my part for Earth Day. I diligently worked at converting hydrocarbons into useful energy for movement. All those dinosaurs that became petroleum (still not sure how that works) are now living again, so to speak, by moving my two and four wheeled vehicles across the landscape. It makes me feel so good to be doing what I can to recycle the creatures and plants of the past into useful activity today.

 

[toysoldier]

Well, I remember when Earth Day was an occasion to celebrate the beautiful world we live in, and emphasize the need to preserve it for our children and grandchildren.

What is rarely mentioned is that many of these endangered species can be seen as "the canary in the coal mine," showing us how entire ecosystems are threatened. It would be a dreary world indeed without the fascinating richness of exotic species.

 

[opos]

I clubbed a Harp seal today....all to celebrate the beauty of nature.

 

[GunnyGene]

Well, I remember when Earth Day was an occasion to celebrate the beautiful world we live in, and emphasize the need to preserve it for our children and grandchildren.

What is rarely mentioned is that many of these endangered species can be seen as "the canary in the coal mine," showing us how entire ecosystems are threatened. It would be a dreary world indeed without the fascinating richness of exotic species.

I've heard this song before. Usually sung by those who don't understand that most of those "exotic species" would be glad to have you for lunch. Are you including deadly viruses and bacteria, various bugs, etc. in your "fascinating richness"?

The point is that every living thing on this planet eats something else and is constantly at war for dominance - even plants. Earth is not some pink and friendly play room. It's a death dealing war zone. Always has been, always will be. Everything has it's time and everything dies, individuals and species.

 

[Colonialgirl]

...and I thought this might be a positive thread. ...oh well. Without 'ole CDFingers around we don't get much positive news about the planet anymore. Perhaps it's all downhill from here? :(

Hey EGO; We just got tired of all the LYING, False Claims and made up Bovine excrement done by the "global warming/Climate change/man caused temperature change" that we decided they need a load of the same dumped all over them. Sorry if you are not sharp enough to have followed all the fakery, lies, manipulated data and other garbage spewed by the "earthy" crowd of morons.

 

[Colonialgirl]

Well, I remember when Earth Day was an occasion to celebrate the beautiful world we live in, and emphasize the need to preserve it for our children and grandchildren.

What is rarely mentioned is that many of these endangered species can be seen as "the canary in the coal mine," showing us how entire ecosystems are threatened. It would be a dreary world indeed without the fascinating richness of exotic species.

I've heard this song before. Usually sung by those who don't understand that most of those "exotic species" would be glad to have you for lunch. Are you including deadly viruses and bacteria, various bugs, etc. in your "fascinating richness"?

The point is that every living thing on this planet eats something else and is constantly at war for dominance - even plants. Earth is not some pink and friendly play room. It's a death dealing war zone. Always has been, always will be. Everything has it's time and everything dies, individuals and species.

AND as pointed out by George Carlin, they ARE dying everyday and have DONE SO for many many thousands of years. Seen any Dinosuars lately ?

 

[Colonialgirl]

Well, I remember when Earth Day was an occasion to celebrate the beautiful world we live in, and emphasize the need to preserve it for our children and grandchildren.

What is rarely mentioned is that many of these endangered species can be seen as "the canary in the coal mine," showing us how entire ecosystems are threatened. It would be a dreary world indeed without the fascinating richness of exotic species.

I've heard this song before. Usually sung by those who don't understand that most of those "exotic species" would be glad to have you for lunch. Are you including deadly viruses and bacteria, various bugs, etc. in your "fascinating richness"?

The point is that every living thing on this planet eats something else and is constantly at war for dominance - even plants. Earth is not some pink and friendly play room. It's a death dealing war zone. Always has been, always will be. Everything has it's time and everything dies, individuals and species.

AND as pointed out by George Carlin, they ARE dying everyday and have DONE SO for many many thousands of years. Seen any Dinosuars lately ?

 

[6gun]

I did buy some good commercial grade lawn fertilizer on earth day so all the tree huggers can cry about the run off killing salmon. :P

 

[exavid]

MMMM.... dead salmon. I never eat 'em alive.

 

[Racer9]

And there's this;

Today is Earth Day and--as expected--the celebration will focus primarily on the potential catastrophic dangers of global warming. But, fortunately, Jon Gabriel, the editor of the conservative website Ricochet has collected a long list of some of the dire warnings environmental disaster made by climate alarmists since Earth Day began in 1970, all of which turned out not to come to fruition:

1. “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” — Harvard biologist George

2. “We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.” — Washington University biologist Barry Commoner

3.“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.” — New York Times editorial

4. “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.” — Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich

5. “Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born… [By 1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.” — Paul Ehrlich

6. “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” — Denis Hayes, Chief organizer for Earth Day

7. “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions…. By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.” — North Texas State University professor Peter Gunter

8. “In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution… by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half.” — Life magazine

9. “At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.” — Ecologist Kenneth Watt

10. “Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” — Paul Ehrlich

11. “By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate… that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, ‘Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, ‘I am very sorry, there isn’t any.’” — Ecologist Kenneth Watt

12. “[One] theory assumes that the earth’s cloud cover will continue to thicken as more dust, fumes, and water vapor are belched into the atmosphere by industrial smokestacks and jet planes. Screened from the sun’s heat, the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born.” — Newsweek Magazine

13. “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.” — Kenneth Watt

Kudos to Jon Gabriel for putting together this enlightening list. My guess is that the list will continue to grow longer and longer as the years pass and more of the alarmist predictions of apocalyptic environmental disaster are proven to be false.

 

[Jimbo357mag]

Like humans can't and aren't destroying this planet. Go ahead bury you head in the sand. That's been the popular thing to do forever but please keep in mind that pollution can be corrected. It's a matter of will. :?

 

[Bucks Owin]

Like humans can't and aren't destroying this planet. Go ahead bury you head in the sand. That's been the popular thing to do forever but please keep in mind that pollution can be corrected. It's a matter of will. :?

Hey ENEMY OF GUN OWNERS, we all know who the ostrich is around here... :roll:

Go swill some more KoolAid why don'tcha... :wink:

 

[Racer9]

Like humans can't and aren't destroying this planet. Go ahead bury you head in the sand. That's been the popular thing to do forever but please keep in mind that pollution can be corrected. It's a matter of will. :?

Humans MAY be contributing, but Nature can't be altered. The planet has gone through multiple heat/cool cycles since it's creation, by natural causes, before humans existed. The only difference this time is the elitists who view it as another way to control and plunder. Volcanoes put far more pollution in the air than man can.
Just name one dire environmentalist warning that has come true!

 

[6gun]

Hey what ever happened to the hole in the Ozone back in the 1960's they claimed was caused from hairspray? :lol:

 

[wolfsong]

Hey what ever happened to the hole in the Ozone back in the 1960's they claimed was caused from hairspray? :lol:

It's been patched up with cow farts.

 

[Jimbo357mag]

Hey what ever happened to the hole in the Ozone back in the 1960's they claimed was caused from hairspray? :lol:

Since 1994 the situation has gotten better, just like with acid rain and mercury and lead pollution. I'm sure many people would like to go back to the days when we just dumped pollution into lakes and rivers and let it spew into the atmosphere but there is no way we will ever go back to those days. No lead in paint or gasoline is a good thing. No CFCs is also a good thing for the ozone layer. Earth Day isn't just about Global Warming.
http://www.theozonehole.com/cfc.htm

 

[Colonialgirl]

Hey what ever happened to the hole in the Ozone back in the 1960's they claimed was caused from hairspray? :lol:

Since 1994 the situation has gotten better, just like with acid rain and mercury and lead pollution. I'm sure many people would like to go back to the days when we just dumped pollution into lakes and rivers and let it spew into the atmosphere but there is no way we will ever go back to those days. No lead in paint or gasoline is a good thing. No CFCs is also a good thing for the ozone layer. Earth Day isn't just about Global Warming.
http://www.theozonehole.com/cfc.htm

That was your idiot liberal democrap buddies up in Ohio, Illinois and other points North.
The problem is that NOW it has gone from "maybe" sensible to completely Asinine and is loaded with liberal morons and LYING scientists looking to get rich on the back of taxpayers. CO2 has ALWAYS been around and it ALWAYS follows an increase in SOLAR radiation, the Earth has been MUCH warmer in the past than in the present (check out the early 1600's when they were growing grapes in Scotland, Sweden and the Island called "GREENLAND" was just that, a green place where you could farm grow crops and raise cattle;
How bout "NewFoundland" that the Vikings discovered where grapes were growing?
You NEED to extract your head from the liberal idiocy and moronic claims and SEE where the RAT hole called Al Gore and the Greenies are slurping up the tax dollars.

 

[B.L. Hall]

but Gore said we're all going to die.... I'm scared, will someone come hole me?

 

[wolfsong]

I'm sure many people would like to go back to the days when we just dumped pollution into lakes and rivers and let it spew into the atmosphere but there is no way we will ever go back to those days...

And you wonder why people deride you and call you a troll? :roll:

If you are so sure of your above quote, it is safe to say, by the same token, that I'm sure you and many others would like nothing more than to take guns away from every conservative Republican. A fair statement, in context. :roll:

 

[Selena]

Hey what ever happened to the hole in the Ozone back in the 1960's they claimed was caused from hairspray? :lol:

Since 1994 the situation has gotten better, just like with acid rain and mercury and lead pollution. I'm sure many people would like to go back to the days when we just dumped pollution into lakes and rivers and let it spew into the atmosphere but there is no way we will ever go back to those days. No lead in paint or gasoline is a good thing. No CFCs is also a good thing for the ozone layer. Earth Day isn't just about Global Warming.
http://www.theozonehole.com/cfc.htm

*sigh*

Except for one small insignificant little detail. With the amount of CFCs needed to do the damaged claimed it would take 80 years for the hydroxyl ions in the atmosphere to break down the compounds to make repair possible. Let me see if I can do the math here... 1960 plus 80 year equals 2015? Hallelujah! We have been saved! :roll: More "settled science?"

 

[Selena]

but Gore said we're all going to die.... I'm scared, will someone come hole me?

You will have to wait in line, I'm still trying to catch Chicken Little.