tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post2186964446367716837..comments2024-01-05T02:53:03.358-06:00Comments on American Zombie: The Madness of CanuteJason Brad Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-50548753694587295132007-04-25T00:24:00.000-05:002007-04-25T00:24:00.000-05:00I guess that makes us all a bunch of Canutes for t...I guess that makes us all a bunch of Canutes for thinking we can save the city. <BR/><BR/>As for anonymous, well, there was very little if any true scientific consensus about earlier doomsday scenarios. It wasn't "experts" crying for the end of the world, it was sensationalist book publishers and "documentary" filmmakers. What's different is that today, there is virtually universal scientific consensus about the fact that global warming is man made, and is a serious concern. I do love how deniers never want to show a chart of the exponential rise in atmospheric C02 over the 20th century, and the one-for-one rise in temperatures -- like these:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/" REL="nofollow">Temperature</A><BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas" REL="nofollow">Greenhouse gases</A><BR/><BR/>And here's <A HREF="http://geology.com/articles/rebuilding-new-orleans.shtml" REL="nofollow">an interesting article</A> about the threats to New Orleans posed by the nexus of disaster scenarios.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-56799325271588141822007-01-19T15:46:00.000-06:002007-01-19T15:46:00.000-06:00Anon,
"In your lifetime...?" Unless you're 10,00...Anon,<br /><br />"In your lifetime...?" Unless you're 10,000 years old, you probably haven't experienced what we're experiencing in the present. We know that weather patterns can take sharp and dramatic shifts...and we know that is happening now. Wether it's attributed to carbon emmisions or not...it's real. <br /><br />Since your so confident about it...I've got a house in the flood zone I'm trying to sell...interested???Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-84057281270530645652007-01-19T15:18:00.000-06:002007-01-19T15:18:00.000-06:00Please note that before the industrial revolution ...Please note that before the industrial revolution or mankind, the earth has gone through heating and cooling cycles. The question is how much of current trends can be attributed to human action.<br /><br />In my lifetime, I have been warned by "experts" that we are entering a new ice age, the worlds population would outstrip it's ability to produce food, we would run out of oil, tin, gold, and copper by 1990, the oceans will die in ten years, etc., etc.<br /><br />The only thing all these dire predictions had in common is that they would happen soon enough to worry people, but not so soon that people would remember when they didn't come to pass.<br /><br />I'm waiting for the next doomsday prediction so I can jump on the bandwagon and be trendy. This global warming thing is so yesterday.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-79368715016895629902007-01-08T22:59:00.000-06:002007-01-08T22:59:00.000-06:00- what if the city is dying? if the water comes, w...- what if the city is dying? if the water comes, what will happen to my pretty lamps, my books, my house? do we put our shotgun houses on semis and move to boring old america? they have tornados in the midwest! <br /><br />That's a thunk, Oya.....sarcasm aside, that's a thunk. Relocation isn't out of the realm of possibility.Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-56143395464648752562007-01-07T21:49:00.000-06:002007-01-07T21:49:00.000-06:00as children my little sister once described a scen...as children my little sister once described a scene to me where in the future, tourists coming to see the cajun life will take a scuba tour-<br />put on masks and tanks, dive and swim through little submursed cottages-<br /><br />this post makes me think about much more, about generations of ancestral knowledge and death. great sums of death. if the city is indeed dying which it may be and i'll only reluctantly admit that in conversation with you because you know death so well, if the city is a great ancient dying thing, some new life will spring up in its decay. many new things. our lives, our childrens lives included, with weeds and what else we determine. what if the city is dying? if the water comes, what will happen to my pretty lamps, my books, my house? do we put our shotgun houses on semis and move to boring old america? they have tornados in the midwest! <br /><br />lil'oyaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-66116444566306993622007-01-07T03:13:00.000-06:002007-01-07T03:13:00.000-06:00Thanks for the heartfelt -- and extremely insightf...Thanks for the heartfelt -- and extremely insightful -- post on your amazing city. I remember feeling that way the moment I came to Seattle, and wondering how long it would last. It's good to know that sensation lingers -- and tragic to have it threatened by so many people playing ostrich (find sand pile, insert head)<br /><br />The weather has been freakish this year and it's only January. It amazes me the lenghths people will go to justify it (usually by trying to localize the phenomenon, rather than including it in the big picture of worldwide change) to deny the larger issue. <br /><br />Thanks for keepin it real.Rosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12070165359044119396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-86135668574886240732007-01-06T13:23:00.000-06:002007-01-06T13:23:00.000-06:00Canute Rockne?Canute Rockne?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-2173150888316155092007-01-04T22:56:00.000-06:002007-01-04T22:56:00.000-06:00That's been the elephant in the room all along. a...That's been the elephant in the room all along. about a year ago, when it first became obvious that Bush had no intention of keeping his promises, I wondered if the same Republicans who denied global warming would use rising sea levels as an excuse. A friend of mine who's from here but lives and works in the D.C. area brought up the same theory , without my mentioning it. Of course there is an obvious irony or hypocrisy to the people that downplay the risk using it as an excuse, but as my friend said, they probably don't see the sense in spending billions to rebuild a doomed city. I don't know how many people in Washington think that way either secretely or subconciously, but I would assume that some do.<br /><br />However, I don't know why you limit the denial to South Louisiana. If climate change means that rebuilding N.O. is throwing good money after, it would also mean that investing in most of our coastal cities is also very risky. New Orleans is just one of the more vulnerable spots, but the madness is nationwide. Personally, I'm investing my limited savings in Manitoba farmland.bayoustjohndavidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03949531682454923206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-91089354010064939172007-01-04T17:24:00.000-06:002007-01-04T17:24:00.000-06:00You're dancing my dance on this one. It astounds m...You're dancing my dance on this one. It astounds me with all the scientific evidence we have that some people (most especially so-called educated individuals in positions of power) think it's a joke. It's no joke. It's happening every day while we go merrily along emitting more and more shit into the atmosphere. Now with the rapid industrial growth in China and more and more people able to afford cars, the cloud grows larger and larger. and toxic car emissions are only the tip of the (quickly melting) iceberg. Eh.TravelingMermaidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08616443915730559621noreply@blogger.com