Device might stop wrong-way drivers
We have recently had several fatalities happen, both on Interstate 95 and Florida’s Turnpike, caused by wrong-way drivers. I don’t know if what I am suggesting is feasible, but something should be attempted.
What I am proposing is to install those one-way spiked devices that you see at car-rental agencies and employed by the police to try to stop cars by deflating the tires. If these could be installed at ramps, they could stop drivers before they get onto the turnpike or I-95.
A device sending an alert signal would be necessary so that the disabled car could be promptly removed. Luckily, Calley backed down, and those villagers survived.
How many didn’t? How many died a painful, torturous death from napalm, or from the debilitating effects of Agent Orange? The Iraqi people did nothing to us, either. How many bombs have we dropped on them?
Now, in spite of all the moaning about debt and deficits, Republicans approved buying “new and improved” Stealth bombers, so “Here we go again!” This “nation, under God” and “the home of the brave” seems to have no faith at all. was even hotter than today. Then came the cooler Dark Ages, followed by the Medieval Warming — at least as hot as we are now. That was followed by the Little Ice Age, which eventually drove the Vikings out of Greenland. Now we are in a 300-year-old warming trend.
Obviously, humans weren’t pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere 2,000 years ago, nor during the Medieval period. And in fact, Moore points out that, surprisingly, there is no positive connection between carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and global warming. The more likely contributors are the shape of the earth’s elliptical orbit around the sun, its axis tilt and its wobble. And, of course, sun activity.
This is not to suggest we abandon reasonable controls on pollutants. Whether they contribute to Earth’s warming or not, they can make for an unpleasant atmosphere. But let’s face it: Global warming doesn’t pose the threat anywhere near that of ISIS or extremists, despite the administration’s claims.
Let’s instead listen to someone like Moore, who has fought for our environment for over 30 years. I suspect he knows what he’s talking about. negligible effect on temperature. That is like saying that each water molecule has a negligible effect on a flood, so any attempt to confine or divert the water is useless.
The author’s claim that temperature has nothing to do with atmospheric carbon dioxide cannot go unchallenged. The correlation is clear, and theory dovetails with observation. The greenhouse effect is well understood: Incoming heat ends up trapped in the atmosphere.
The vast majority of scientists agree that global warming caused primarily by the burning of fossil fuels is real, and that it poses a serious risk of catastrophic climate change in the future. Politicians have now largely joined the scientists in acknowledging the danger, and have taken the first real steps to mitigate the damage with the recent climate agreement signed in Paris.
It is easy to forget how lucky humanity is to be in the right place. Using conservative calculations, the volume of Earth’s atmosphere is less than one billionth of one billionth of one billionth of the volume of the solar system. With so little livable space in the universe, we should be preserving ours, not destroying it.