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03:26 AM
11/29/09
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Beautiful Design... check.
Breathtaking sunsets and nights... check.
Air conditioner... Not installed!
I'd visit for one day, but I couldn't live there.
The thought of being there is ruined by the thought of trying to sleep in a pool of my own sweat during the hot season.
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That's just how I roll. I keep the house around 70F-75F when I sleep. And 75F is my upper range in sleep comfort.
The weather right now is dead on for my sweet spot though!
11/29/09
Well for a few days anyway.
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The cross is also very nice subtle imagery.
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"The house is located in Roca Blanca, on the Pacific coast close to Puerto Escondido"
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11/28/09
These nightmare "climate change" scenarios are from the realm of pure fantasy, intended to scare people into buying Al Gore's carbon offsets.
All this focus on CO2 only distracts people from the real environmental hazards, too countless to list here.
The climate is always changing, always has, always will. When it changes, people either move, or add/remove insulation on their body/home.
11/29/09
The sea's level has already risen significantly (if you happen to live in the Maldives, or Bangladesh, or any low-lying area), and as they rise more (gradually, as you said), there will be tens or hundres of billions of $$ spent on sea-walls, relocations, and eventually - I have zero doubt - geo-engineering projects. We're a tinkering species, and we're bound to try lowering the temp on a global scale, whether it's giant carbon scrubbers, or painting a few deserts white, or whatever.
It's the unintended consequences of our inevitable tinkering that worry me more than the actual sea-rise (which is probably going to be in the 1 - 3 foot range by 2050, high enough to need a lot of sea-walls and dikes)
11/29/09
Hence, the language shift to "climate change" rather then "global warming".
02:46 AM
In addition, the Chinese government (which has collected its own data using both its own satellites and ground-based centers for *decades*) have reached the same conclusions that NASA has - the Earth is warming up, and human activity is the primary driver of the rise in temperature.
Americans tend to have this very "inward" focused idea that somehow, everything is tied to their own internal politics. But the truth is that Japan, China, and even the Russian Federation all monitor the Earth's temperature from space, and all have independent data in general agreement: the Earth is warming up. The reason it's generally referred to as "climate change" is the realization that although the mean temperature will rise, it will be non-uniform: some places may actually have lower "low tempatures" than before, while other areas will have much higher "high" temps.
@Jim-Bob Sadly, sometimes the "fear mongers" are essentially correct. In this case, given that countries who have no interest in helping American environmentalists, such as China and Russia, have independently reached the same basic conclusions based on their own research, and their own climate models. Additionally, Japan built a massive supercomputer of their own, with which they have built increasingly accurate models of the climate, using their own data.
It's simply not possible for any human conspiracy to be so large, that China, Russia, Japan, and every other country with monitoring equipment is "conspiring" to "get research grant money". That's actually absurd.
11/28/09
11/27/09
The main photo, with the gondolas, looks very suspiciously like much of Bangkok, to be honest (which also has some 10 million or more people).
I *literally* take a "water taxi" (which looks a bit like that gondola, but with a motor) to my client's office every day, through Bangkok's canal system. The only thing missing from post-flood NYC is all the cute Thai girls!
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One thing that's scary is that Bangkok already has giant pumps working 24/7 pumping water out of some areas, because the whole city is slowly sinking while the sea is rising. Some parts of downtown (Silom especially) are sometimes under a foot or more of rainwater, during flash-floods in the rainy season. Nothing like being trapped at work because your office is surrounded by a foot of dirty water, complete with swimming rats, about 1 mile from one of the largest shopping malls in the world (Siam Paragon).
11/27/09
Not only people managed somehow to keep electricity, but also invented some way of purifying the putrid city water...
Anyway, nice ideas. Not very impressive execution though... they look more like rough collage concepts than concluded pieces.
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The only thing we can truly run out of is free energy, and our free energy ball is still under warranty for another 5 billion years.
11/28/09
Depleted resources will just force people to find new ones.
11/28/09
Sure ok, keep telling yourself that.
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@kalleboo: [www.flickr.com]
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THE HORROR.
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