21st January 2004, 3:30 PM
I've read multiple articles about this before. If Global Warming progresses the loss of the Gulf Stream is very possible, and would cause irreprable harm, and massive problems (unsolvable, possibly), to North America and Europe... but because it hasn't happened yet, you doubt that it could. As ASM says with that attitude we would never have banned anything until it caused a major disaster... which is the absolute wrong way of going about things...
Ozone is a big part of it obviously. We've taken action now that we know but a lot of third world nations still use aerosols... but that's just a small part of the problem...
But hey, as Midwest coal power plants say, better them than us! (in that case 'them' being us in New England... but it's easily changable to 'them' being 'the people in the future who will be doomed to live in a ruined environment'...)
Foolish people. Driving in snow isn't THAT hard...
Ozone is a big part of it obviously. We've taken action now that we know but a lot of third world nations still use aerosols... but that's just a small part of the problem...
But hey, as Midwest coal power plants say, better them than us! (in that case 'them' being us in New England... but it's easily changable to 'them' being 'the people in the future who will be doomed to live in a ruined environment'...)
Quote:Last year a huge chunk of our municipal highway budget was routed by the rather tame winter weather. People here are very afraid of winter weather, and there are always bug runs on grocery stores, 90% of the time for nothing. And people here REALLY need to learn how to drive in the stuff.
Foolish people. Driving in snow isn't THAT hard...