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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: maceng2 who wrote (19343)	1/2/2008 6:32:32 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

PB, because we can affect climate, doesn't mean anything and everything written or said about climate change by doomsters is correct. It doesn't mean weather monitoring has been well done. I have been in a few poor countries and even things requiring low maintenance aren't maintained. I have been in wealthy countries and things requiring maintenance are often if not usually not maintained. It's not jingoistic imperialism to say poor countries don't maintain things. It's true. I think you might be fighting the potato famine wars again and are still annoyed about Rudyard Kipling. Do you think anyone in Kenya is spending much time painting weather stations recently. How about Zimbabwe? Fiji? Solomon Islands? In NZ, the weather stations will be stolen and the copper melted down for scrap recycling and the weather man's car will be broken into or stolen while he's away down the track reading the gauges. Jingoistic imperialism? They are just thermometers PB, it's not genocide, apartheid, slavery and conquest. I think the reference to weather equipment maintenance was to more than just a coat of paint. There is no doubt that people are having an effect on the weather, if not the climate. The question is how big an effect. I think it's a good effect overall [plants liking CO2 and me disliking ice ages and even just cold winters and summers]. Mqurice