Longtimefan
01-11-2010, 09:44 AM
I just got back from checking on my boat and its cold as he!! outside and its only going to get colder this week. Right now the temp is around 25 and my boat is surround by ice but I have its heater on so its nice and warm. Its so cold that the pelicans are dying and the fish are floating to the top of the water in parts of NC. I cannot remember the last time that we have had it this cold for this amount of time in VA. So hows your weather?
Cold!! And the only one profiting from it is PEPCO, they love it. When I got last months electric bill I was like the man who bought his first Mercedes Benz and after a couple of months realized the impact the payments were having on the family budget. He said to his wife "Mercy-Deez-Payments Are Killing Me". Cold = Cost.
firstdown
01-11-2010, 10:09 AM
Cold!! And the only one profiting from it is PEPCO, they love it. When I got last months electric bill I was like the man who bought his first Mercedes Benz and after a couple of months realized the impact the payments were having on the family budget. He said to his wife "Mercy-Deez-Payments Are Killing Me". Cold = Cost.
When I first got married 10 years ago we lived in this old farm house right on the river. It had very little insulation and when the wind blew off the water we had to crank the heat. It had gas heat and we had one bill for like $500 and another over $600. It was a great place to live but we paid for that great view.
Slingin Sammy 33
01-11-2010, 01:54 PM
Just thought I'd throw this in the mix (yes, it's Fox News).
FOXNews.com - 30 Years of Global Cooling Are Coming, Leading Scientist Says (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/11/years-global-cooling-coming-say-leading-scientists/)
Monkeydad
01-11-2010, 02:51 PM
Just thought I'd throw this in the mix (yes, it's Fox News).
FOXNews.com - 30 Years of Global Cooling Are Coming, Leading Scientist Says (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/11/years-global-cooling-coming-say-leading-scientists/)
That's a re-run from the 70s!
TheMalcolmConnection
01-11-2010, 02:52 PM
Speaking of heating, what is it with these electrical companies saying they need to raise prices despite record profits? Dominion is really f-ing up my monthly bill recently.
Trample the Elderly
01-11-2010, 06:35 PM
Speaking of heating, what is it with these electrical companies saying they need to raise prices despite record profits? Dominion is really f-ing up my monthly bill recently.
That's what happens when you have a monopoly. Eff VEPCO, Dominion, or whatever they'll call themselves in the future.
budw38
01-11-2010, 08:18 PM
Copenhagen Summit Turned Junket? - CBS News (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/11/cbsnews_investigates/main6084364.shtml?tag=contentBody;featuredPost-PE) . Our politicians use 3) military jets , 2) 737's that tax payers provided them , these jets put out enough Co2 to fill 10,000 swiming pools .
Slingin Sammy 33
01-20-2010, 07:26 PM
Of course you can trust the IPCC's conclusions.....
FOXNews.com - U.N. Panel's Glacier-Disaster Claims Melting Away (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/20/panels-glacier-disaster-claims-melting-away/)
saden1
01-20-2010, 08:27 PM
Of course you can trust the IPCC's conclusions.....
FOXNews.com - U.N. Panel's Glacier-Disaster Claims Melting Away (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/20/panels-glacier-disaster-claims-melting-away/)
"They are indeed receding and the rate is cause for great concern," Ramesh said of the glaciers. But, he said, the IPCC's 2035 forecast was "not based on an iota of scientific evidence."
Could they be using "tricks" to arrive at 2035 date? Let's hope they "un-recede" all on their own.
JoeRedskin
01-20-2010, 08:55 PM
The IPCC is so biased in its science as to be useless. This is not the first time they have issued non-vetted, altered papers or papers with important materials deleted. Any claim they make is suspect.
Mind you, many of the reporrts and "think tanks" critiquing IPCC work are equally suspect. The science of global warming is so politicized as to be practically useless. You can pretty much find credible scientists to support any view you want to believe.
It seems to me that most credible scientists agree that the earth is warming but that there is simply no way to be sure that it is the result of human activity.