Yes, it must be close to the end of times. Mother Nature is clearly out to purify herself of her pestilence of people. The midwest is pretty much underwater right now. And that is going to be bad news for gas and food prices.
The good news from all of this is the likely increased pressure on liberal politicians to stop stonewalling any internal development of fossil fuel resources, whether it is offshore drilling, ANWAR, building new refineries or pursuing oil shale or oil sands resources.
I’ve said before that the result of U.S. policies on fossil fuel development is that after we’ve sucked the rest of the world dry, we’ll be sitting on our own undeveloped resources, which isn’t really all that bad of a strategic approach, if you think about it….
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You sound like my dear departed Grandmother. She said back in the Arab oil embargo days “HELL NO! Let’s drain them SOBs dry!” She wasn’t a very demure lady.
I happen to be one of the few idiots on the planet that believes the abiotic petroleum theory. I don’t accept the idea that there were ever enough dinosaurs roaming the planet to create a million bazillion barrels of oil. I know that the Gulf of Mexico continues to refill itself with petroleum.
I could be the Dennis Kucinich of petroleum science, but I believe that petroleum will be continually produced by the earth.
Aside from that…man, what a mess in the middle of the country! Jeepers, you really have to feel badly for all those folks in Iowa, Illinois, and those to come in Missouri, maybe Arkansas, Mississippi, etc.
I blame Bush! He blew up the levees in Iowa and then went over to visit Sarkozy and the Pope. He’ll be in Iowa on Thursday (late again…he should have been there filling up sand bags with Cheney and Rice instead of trying to fool us all into believing that Iran might get nukes).
I have little doubt that there are AGW weenies blaming Bush for the floods, as well as the snow in Spokane yesterday, the record cold in San Francisco (54 degree high yesterday), etc.
After all, when we had a record hot day last week, the newsbabes were in full Al Gore roar. But the weather bureau did mention quietly that the ocean temperature is a chilly 49 degrees even now – so if you’re going surfing, be sure to wear your wetsuit…
Any legitimate climatologist knows that the vast majority of earth’s history, earth has been an ice planet, not a water world. Warming periods (known as “inter-glacial periods” I think) are quite the aberration climatologically, not the norm. Even if human activity has contributed some fractional growth of CO2 in the past century it is hard for me to believe that has suddently tipped the scale from a planet that is typically scoured by mile-thick glaciers into a sweltering furnace of a world. The odds are much more likely that our civilization will end in ice than in fire. Robert Frost notwithstanding…
Hmmm…Interesting…
I am one of those few odd folks that believe that we are headed into an ice age rather than a hot spell.
Robert “Frost” huh? No one will ever convince me that there is not “something in a name.”
You would think with a name like “Frost” he would find ice nice, instead of favoring fire.
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