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  • Afghanistan Works to Pass Elimination of Violence Against Women Act
    Chuck commented on the article | almost 2 years ago

    Si vi pacem, para bellum.  Si vi bellum, para pacem. 


     


    Wisdom as old as the hills of Rome, and still just as valid today. 

  • Afghanistan Works to Pass Elimination of Violence Against Women Act
    Chuck commented on the article | over 2 years ago

    Sorry.  I'm just trying to spur some free thought.  This is probably too much to ask of you. 


    Keep in mind: if everyone's thinking the same thing, someone isn't thinking.

  • Maldivian Ministers Forced To Hold Climate Talks Underwater
    Chuck commented on the article | over 2 years ago

    Actually, no.  Thanks for pointing me its way, though. 


    I think that a lot of people view the world as naturally stable, yet climate change is well documented in human history, as plate tectonics are in the geological record.  


    I'm old enough to remember when the big environmental concern was a new ice age.  But, the idea of anthropogenic global warming logically dictates that a world government and high taxation of industrialized societies is needed.  There is a lot of money and power behind the climate change movement, and the powerful have a lot to gain if they get their way.

  • Maldivian Ministers Forced To Hold Climate Talks Underwater
    Chuck commented on the article | over 2 years ago

    I'm not a believer in anthropogenic causes of climate change, with the exception of nuclear winter, should it ever happen.


    When you have a few minutes, google "unstoppable solar cycles" and catch a youtube video to get an alternative prospective. 


    Regardless of what postulate makes more sense, it is still good food for thought.

  • Maldivian Ministers Forced To Hold Climate Talks Underwater
    Chuck commented on the article | over 2 years ago

    That's a good question.  I can't even begin to go into the math of fluid dynamics, and, based upon what I have seen from many oceanographers and climatologists, they can't do much better. 


    The ocean water has to flow from one point to another in order for a short term change, such as the location of the sun and moon.  Weather patterns will also cause short term changes. 


    What we are dealing with is a long term change in either the total volume of ocean water, which would show itself globally, or local changes in the surface height of this balloon that we call the earth's crust. 


    I am open to any other theories.  I simply lean toward the one that has the most logical explanation.

  • Maldivian Ministers Forced To Hold Climate Talks Underwater
    Chuck commented on the article | over 2 years ago

    All of the locations I mentioned are at the shore of one continuous body of water.  If the oceans are rising due to the addition of more water, then it stands to reason that each location must experience the same rise. 


    Glaciers are local. 


    We must rationally assess the situation in order to come to the proper conclusion.  There are many that come to a conclusion and then manipulate the data to match that conclusion.  This method of thought is improper.

  • Maldivian Ministers Forced To Hold Climate Talks Underwater
    Chuck commented on the article | over 2 years ago

    Naw.  They'd loose their kahunas in the process. 


    How high have the oceans risen, exactly, in Maldives, Samoa, San Francisco, and Iceland?  Is it all the same?

  • Maldivian Ministers Forced To Hold Climate Talks Underwater
    Chuck commented on the article | over 2 years ago

    If, indeed, the ocean was rising, this would be evident world-wide.  It is not, to the extent that it shows on Maldives. 


    Rational thought would conclude that volcanic activity under the earth's crust is the cause of the sinking. 


    Just because one of my cornflakes sinks into my milk, it does not indicate that there is more milk in the bowl.  I don't mean to sound callous, but if we concentrate on the wrong problem we will only delay the proper solution.

  • Afghanistan Works to Pass Elimination of Violence Against Women Act
    Chuck commented on the article | over 2 years ago

    That's OK, Tom.  I'll be convinced for you. 

  • Afghanistan Works to Pass Elimination of Violence Against Women Act
    Chuck commented on the article | over 2 years ago

    Tom, what makes you think anyone cares.  I've read some of your comments, also.  I'm not impressed. 


    Now, back to my point, tell the rest of us what would happen to women's rights in Afghanistan if the Taliban reclaimed the territory?  If you think they will be in better shape than they are today, I will laugh at you and cry for them.  

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