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Old Aug 24, 2008 | 07:50 PM
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Every where you go today you see or hear about saving the earth. Recycling is in.
Next time you need another vehicle, do your part and buy another

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Old Aug 24, 2008 | 07:54 PM
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Gonna help you and the Earth out someday! First I gotta get a supercharger for my C5!










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Old Aug 24, 2008 | 08:01 PM
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I did already! I replaced my 98 with a 04!
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Old Aug 24, 2008 | 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted by OzzyC4
Every where you go today you see or hear about saving the earth. Recycling is in.
Next time you need another vehicle, do your part and buy another

C5


that is all.
No, I dont like Koolaid. I'll buy a gas guzzler
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Old Aug 24, 2008 | 08:50 PM
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Maybe the 3rd world should stop breeding. I read that Ethiopias population has doubled in the last ten years (oooo and they are short of food.... duhhh).

Stop feeding them or maybe if they had less kids they could support them !!!



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Old Aug 24, 2008 | 10:55 PM
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My opinion on recycling:

Everything is biodegradable if you give it enough time...
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Old Aug 24, 2008 | 11:34 PM
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Who knows, maybe the next Corvette I buy will be another C5.
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Old Aug 25, 2008 | 12:09 AM
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Doing my part,,bought my FRC in January,,and kept my C3 as well!! No plan to get rid of them anywhere in the foreseeable future!!

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Nothing we do will save the Earth.When it gets angry enough it will kick us off.
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Old Aug 25, 2008 | 03:57 AM
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Come up with a computer model and folks will believe.

What basis did the global warning computer model originate? Why Venus, the planet Venus. It was Mariner 10 sent to probe Venus in 1974 that sent back atomsphereic data that started 'scientists' to puzzle. Venus Co2 levels are very extreme , but so is everything else on Venus, but someone said 'we have CO2 here on Earth. Could what has happened to Venus , happen here?'

Yep , their computer model is based on Venus.

Well, the Earth's weather forecast models are formulated on actual Earth conditions and can we get a decent 5 day forecast? Nope. Wonder how accurate a 50 or 100 year prediction of global warming computer model is going to be? Give me a freakin break.


It is a fact that 2007 was 3/4 of a degree cooler and that 2008 is also cooler so far. The golbal warming folks don't have a technical responce to this other than to say 'we should expect the unexpected '. What?

Was anyone around in the mid 1970's? We had three years in the mid 1970s that the scientific consensus was we were heading for a "little ice age". Hundreds of people froze to death in the USA alone. The predictions of a global freeze was the topic of that day.


Nobody has heard of orbital cycles? Every 58 years the rate of axial precession chnages the seasons by one day. The Earth's orbit is elliptical meaning that at some point during the year the earth is closer to the sun that others. The axis of the Earth changes which causes one area of the Earth to be closer or farther away at different times during history. Those areas will well warmer or colder depending in that axis tilt.

I hear a lot of technical mombo jumbo but no common sense.
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Old Aug 25, 2008 | 04:44 AM
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Originally Posted by dieseldave56
Come up with a computer model and folks will believe.

What basis did the global warning computer model originate? Why Venus, the planet Venus. It was Mariner 10 sent to probe Venus in 1974 that sent back atomsphereic data that started 'scientists' to puzzle. Venus Co2 levels are very extreme , but so is everything else on Venus, but someone said 'we have CO2 here on Earth. Could what has happened to Venus , happen here?'

Yep , their computer model is based on Venus.

Well, the Earth's weather forecast models are formulated on actual Earth conditions and can we get a decent 5 day forecast? Nope. Wonder how accurate a 50 or 100 year prediction of global warming computer model is going to be? Give me a freakin break.


It is a fact that 2007 was 3/4 of a degree cooler and that 2008 is also cooler so far. The golbal warming folks don't have a technical responce to this other than to say 'we should expect the unexpected '. What?

Was anyone around in the mid 1970's? We had three years in the mid 1970s that the scientific consensus was we were heading for a "little ice age". Hundreds of people froze to death in the USA alone. The predictions of a global freeze was the topic of that day.


Nobody has heard of orbital cycles? Every 58 years the rate of axial precession chnages the seasons by one day. The Earth's orbit is elliptical meaning that at some point during the year the earth is closer to the sun that others. The axis of the Earth changes which causes one area of the Earth to be closer or farther away at different times during history. Those areas will well warmer or colder depending in that axis tilt.

I hear a lot of technical mombo jumbo but no common sense.


Global warming has become one giant marketing strategy. Which is really really g@y.
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Old Aug 25, 2008 | 04:55 AM
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Originally Posted by jrose7004
I did already! I replaced my 98 with a 04!
I did the same thing
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Old Aug 25, 2008 | 09:32 AM
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Originally Posted by dieseldave56

It is a fact that 2007 was 3/4 of a degree cooler and that 2008 is also cooler so far. The golbal warming folks don't have a technical responce to this other than to say 'we should expect the unexpected '. What?
Actually, it's been colder every year for the past 10+ years.


Originally Posted by dieseldave56

Was anyone around in the mid 1970's? We had three years in the mid 1970s that the scientific consensus was we were heading for a "little ice age". Hundreds of people froze to death in the USA alone. The predictions of a global freeze was the topic of that day.
And yes, we are entering a mini ice age. We get one about every 400 years. The last one was in the 1600s, the one before that in the 1200s and the one before that the 800s.

Global Warming is the biggest mass marketing campaign of pure bunk ever.
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Old Aug 25, 2008 | 01:03 PM
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Yes, the "Global warming" and "Climate change" things are total hogwash. I, too, am old enough to remember when the same brand of hysterical people were saying that we were all going to freeze to death.
I remember reading "The Population Bomb" by Paul Ehrilich in the early '70s. According to that book, massive overpopulation would cause everyone to starve by 1990 or so. So much for that idiotic theory- the standard of living is better now than ever!
Something you NEVER see in the mainstream media: The air and the water are CLEANER right now than they have been in our lifetimes.
Al Gore and his type won't be satisfied until our economy is ruined and we are all riding bicycles everywhere. Sooner or later the general public will see this climate stuff for what it is: a huge scam. The scary part is that they are brainwashing our kids and other impressionable types.
I burn fossil fuel without guilt and with a smile on my face. Getting good mileage with my C5 only makes me feel better when I fill it up. Leaves more $$ in my pocket for doing politically incorrect things...
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Old Aug 25, 2008 | 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by dieseldave56
Come up with a computer model and folks will believe.

What basis did the global warning computer model originate? Why Venus, the planet Venus. It was Mariner 10 sent to probe Venus in 1974 that sent back atomsphereic data that started 'scientists' to puzzle. Venus Co2 levels are very extreme , but so is everything else on Venus, but someone said 'we have CO2 here on Earth. Could what has happened to Venus , happen here?'

Yep , their computer model is based on Venus.

Well, the Earth's weather forecast models are formulated on actual Earth conditions and can we get a decent 5 day forecast? Nope. Wonder how accurate a 50 or 100 year prediction of global warming computer model is going to be? Give me a freakin break.


It is a fact that 2007 was 3/4 of a degree cooler and that 2008 is also cooler so far. The golbal warming folks don't have a technical responce to this other than to say 'we should expect the unexpected '. What?

Was anyone around in the mid 1970's? We had three years in the mid 1970s that the scientific consensus was we were heading for a "little ice age". Hundreds of people froze to death in the USA alone. The predictions of a global freeze was the topic of that day.


Nobody has heard of orbital cycles? Every 58 years the rate of axial precession chnages the seasons by one day. The Earth's orbit is elliptical meaning that at some point during the year the earth is closer to the sun that others. The axis of the Earth changes which causes one area of the Earth to be closer or farther away at different times during history. Those areas will well warmer or colder depending in that axis tilt.

I hear a lot of technical mombo jumbo but no common sense.
Boy do I remember the late 70s early 80s and in the St.Louis area in that period The Mississippi froze over here and another year we set a record for continuous snow cover. We had 1 snow fall that pretty much shut the area down,,I was stuck at work from 11pm sat night to 4:30 pm Monday afternoon!! I'm almost 62 now,, so I I'll do my part,,I'll keep the cats on my FRC Hell I've managed a 13.08 so far with them on!!
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I have done the boost and getting a new C6 to help leave my carbon foot print for Al Gore to oggle over
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I did my part in trying to keep the Earth green,I bought a gas
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I did already! I replaced my 98 with a 04!
I replaced my 02 with my 04
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Originally Posted by AEmedic
...Everything is biodegradable if you give it enough time...
Well, degradeable anyway.
Originally Posted by electric_yogurt
...And yes, we are entering a mini ice age. We get one about every 400 years. The last one was in the 1600s, the one before that in the 1200s and the one before that the 800s.
If that is true then we could see a reversal of the melting of the polar ice caps. Whoohoo, problem solved.
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