The earth is not warming at the same rate as the other planets in the solar system. They are at different distances from the sun and have very different environments.
My, how bright you are, okay to handle the stickler for details. Taking into account the distances the rate is the same. As the sun expands the sweet spot that makes our planet habitable is moving out and the harsher heat is moving in. this is why there is a record heat wave on Mars, in summer at the equator the temp almost gets to zero. As for the Co2 levels on earth causing global warming something that is a total lie. Look at Mars. The atmosphere is almost 100% carbon dioxide and the planet is cold.
Put a greenhouse in your backyard and grow some tasty veggies or maybe some more of the weed your smoking. In the middle of winter enter it and wonder why the same sun is making it warm and cozy inside there but not outside of it. Then exit the greenhouse and pray that God doesn't send a bunch of tornadoes or a flood your way before you get a chance to build an ark.
I am so sorry but I have not indulged in illegal drug use, I grew up in the 60’s. to suggest that a greenhouse and the earth are equal would have to negate the 80% nitrogen that is in the air as well as the oxygen, a greenhouse works not because of the carbon dioxide but because of the heat being trapped by the glass which allows the heat in and keeps the cold out. Plants breathe in carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen. They are the reason why the atmosphere went from nitrogen, sulfur, carbon, oxygen atmosphere to a nitrogen, oxygen atmosphere. So the natural state of the planet is more sulfur and carbon and less oxygen. The plant life is what has changed the planet making it habitable for us. As long as the plants are breathing it in they will continue to grow. They filter the air. What keeps us from burning up from the heat of the sun is our rotational speed of a little over a thousand miles an hour. This is slowly changing, we are speeding up a little bit each year. Look at Jupiter, it rotates once every ten and a half hours or so. Big storms there. That is our future if the planet is not burned to a cinder first.
We do not ship out crude oil to be to be refined at foreign refineries then ship it back with a tax on it. We have enough refining capacity to refine all of the domestic oil we produce for the domestic market. As to foreign oil we refine some of it here but what we can't handle is shipped on foreign flagged tankers and shipped and refined at U.S. owned foreign based refineries. Trust me the refining companies love their foreign based refineries. No business taxes, no OSHA, no unions. My screen name is Smoothseas for a reason. Don't try to con me about an industry i worked in for over 20 years and i won't con u about yours....smoking weed.
that may have been true 20 years ago it is not now.
Actually maybe i will...Who was it that repealed the CAFE standards way back when...Oh yea Ronald Regan.
Okay, expalin it to me.
Yes nuclear power plants...we will probably have to build more in the future... i do believe it is part of solving our energy problems. I just haven't figured out yet how to tell Iran they can't build any while we do and not be called a hypocrite.
Okay now I see, you wish to confuse issues in order to hide your weakness in understanding the facts. We can build as much as we want because no one but us can stop us. They can’t. by the way part of our refining space is taken up by the oil from Iran because they don’t have the refining capability because they have not build a refinery since they kicked us out 30 years ago. A pity you have not stopped smoking dope while at sea instead of studying the subjects you profess to know.
Wind power is not ready yet? Go visit the Netherlands.
wind power is ready now but will only work in certain areas.
Who said that? Oh wait that was me. Reading comprehension a bit off today?
Solar power is not ready yet? I started cutting my electric bill in half over 20 years ago.
On your solar powered boat? I was discussing the problems of solar energy a few weeks ago and it seems the computer industry is the only hold back for cheaper power cells. He would sort of know cause he sort of owns a plant that makes them. The good silicon needed for the power cells are the same used to make computer chips because they compete for the same product the price keeps going up. It won’t be ready for 50 years or so. My friend is hopeful and thinks it will be ready in ten years. I am doubtful. He says the solar panels that used to take up a square meter can now be shrunk to a square foot and produce the same amount of power. Each year they are getting better and better. Smoke getting in your eyes?
Don't kid yourself. Offshore Oil drilling is expensive. Its much easier to invade Iraq, get leases for the cheapest source to tap then pass the bill for the war off to the taxpayer. That's the true windfall tax, even though i think its called the War Appropriations bill and its cost is definately being passed on to the consumer.
That’s a good idea maybe we should try that. But instead of Iraq where they have only a few hundred wells we should go after Saudi Arabia. Who can stop us if that is what we want to do. Your argument here is weak. It has been argued back and forth for years and it has been disproven that is what we had intended to do. The Saudi and Kuwaiti governments ran from Saddam so it would be easy to invade there if that was what we wanted to do. Who would stop us once we had the land under our feet? For that matter why are we helping the Iraqis? We destroyed their army in less than two weeks. We had nothing and no one to stop us from making Iraq a territory of the United States.