By Andy B. Hammond, 1 year and 7 months ago
Out For A While
I just want to let those who might care know that I've been struggling with some significant health problems and will not be as active on my blog or others' until I get better.
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No trackbacksBy Andy B. Hammond, 1 year and 7 months ago
Quote from Micheal Crichton's Book, Jurassic Park
| You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity! Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There's been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years. Bacteria first; later the first multicellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea, on the land. Then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years, great dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away -- all this against a background of continuous and violent upheaval. Mountain ranges thrust up, eroded away, cometary impacts, volcano eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving, an endless, constant, violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of years. Earth has survived everything in its time. |
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| It will certainly survive us. If all the nuclear weapons in the world went off at once and all the plants, all the animals died and the earth was sizzling hot for a hundred thousand years, life would survive, somewhere: under the soil, frozen in arctic ice. Sooner or later, when the planet was no longer inhospitable, life would spread again. The evolutionary process would begin again. Might take a few billion years for life to regain its present variety. Of course, it would be very different from what it is now, but the earth would survive our folly, only we would not. If the ozone layer gets thinner, ultraviolet radiation sears earth, so what? Ultraviolet radiation is good for life. It's powerful energy. It promotes mutation, change. Many forms of life will thrive with more UV radiation. Many others will die out. You think this is the first time that's happened? Think about oxygen. Necessary for life now, but oxygen is actually a metabolic poison, a corrosive glass, like fluorine. |
By Andy B. Hammond, 1 year and 7 months ago
Gore Buys "Carbon Offsets" From His Own Company
Al Gore, in order to justify his outrageous energy consumption in his mansion, claims he buys «carbon offsets» to justify his usage. However, the company he buys these offsets from are a company he helped found and is Chairman, Generation Investment Management. What this company actually does is invests in solar, wind and other projects that will supposedly reduce energy consumption around the world.
