Southern Armada

lol - doom and gloom, i bet some of your friends also wear foil on their heads to protect themselves from govt departments trying to read their thoughts - hehe

Global Warming - what a joke.  billions of dollars in gas bagging and a few million to do anything about it.

Graemble:

lol - doom and gloom, i bet some of your friends also wear foil on their heads to protect themselves from govt departments trying to read their thoughts - hehe

Global Warming - what a joke.  billions of dollars in gas bagging and a few million to do anything about it.

That particular guy I mentioned is about 66 years old, married, with two grown up kids (one works for gov't). He used to work as a financial controller for a few companies, with the last job having about 50 people reporting to him (including myself), they are multi-millionairs. She is a certified accountant that for the last few years ran her own business. They never did any farming in the past, but decided to retire to that setting, for a few reasons, peak oil being one of them.

Yeah, some of my acquaintances wear tinfoil hats, but lately a lot of stuff that used to be concidered tinfoil is now all of the sudden common knowledge :)

Also, just in case you missed this, USA passed a bill in the US House (now they have to accept it in Senate) that gives a blank cheque to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Basically, allowing US treasury to print money to rescue them. With both of them having 5 trillion mortgages on their books, the rescue will be catastrophic for the US dollar in the medium term... Just giving people here heads up..

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Interesting topic. Recently I went to a talk regarding global warming for work. Apparently scientist have been saying from around 1950s that there is a problem but I suppose most politicians and others, either needed more proof, or couldnt see it as a huge threat. Here is a link I found that shows interesting graphs http://www.planetforlife.com/gwarm/glob1000.html.

I cant see how it would hurt to be greener and I definitely aint no greenie. Why not use solar energy or gas to run a household?

The way the weather is atm its freezing as... what global warming

Here is a link to one of the best climate sites around. They are very good at debunking crap like the article Lucan posted:)

http://www.realclimate.org/

Neil.

So where's the global warming issues in the last week or so?

Where are our resident financial advisors? In sight please.

who cares if it gets hotter there is air con in my house and car, hell i sell air conditioning...

if the ice caps melt, air con can go into a boat, ever been to dubai, it will be like that only with outh the sheek...

 

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"You know it makes sense!"
Angelofwrath
(Formally Rez Please)

Dubai is weird (never actually been there but seen lots of pics)... but is it actually going to be self sustainable once the oil money dries up?

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It's pretty much the reason they are currently spending so much money on tourism.    They understand that eventually the oil-cow will run dry and they will need a sustainable income.

Tourism in a place with very little other natural resources is probably their best chance...

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In a few decades, sand will reclaim these towers of Babel. Maybe then I will travel there as a tourist, to look at them, and ponder man's folly :)

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