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<blockquote data-quote="Josh Millward" data-source="post: 67592" data-attributes="member: 970">Re: Hurricane SandyI think everyone needs to step back and take a look at the broader picture...Remember when that volcano went off in Iceland and shut down air traffic in part of Europe? Remember that the surface of the Earth is covered about 75% with water? Remember that the industrialized parts of the earth does not constitute very much of the remaining 25% of the surface of the Earth? What makes anyone think that ANYTHING we could do would have a significant effect on the climate? Think about how much heat is in the oceans around the equator... IF there were a way to extract all that heat, what would you do with it? How are you going to extract it? It is going to require some sort of energy to extract that heat from the oceans... this, of course, is going to generate more heat... End result: there is not a thing we can do to regulate the temperature on the surface of this ball. What do you think would happen if the glaciers started encroaching for another ice age? Would we cut holes in the encroaching glaciers so they go around our cities? What about the roads between the cities? What about the farm lands that would be lost under the glaciers? You can&#039;t stop Mother Nature. She is going to do whatever she wants to do. We have to deal with it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Josh Millward, post: 67592, member: 970"] Re: Hurricane Sandy I think everyone needs to step back and take a look at the broader picture... Remember when that volcano went off in Iceland and shut down air traffic in part of Europe? Remember that the surface of the Earth is covered about 75% with water? Remember that the industrialized parts of the earth does not constitute very much of the remaining 25% of the surface of the Earth? What makes anyone think that ANYTHING we could do would have a significant effect on the climate? Think about how much heat is in the oceans around the equator... IF there were a way to extract all that heat, what would you do with it? How are you going to extract it? It is going to require some sort of energy to extract that heat from the oceans... this, of course, is going to generate more heat... End result: there is not a thing we can do to regulate the temperature on the surface of this ball. What do you think would happen if the glaciers started encroaching for another ice age? Would we cut holes in the encroaching glaciers so they go around our cities? What about the roads between the cities? What about the farm lands that would be lost under the glaciers? You can't stop Mother Nature. She is going to do whatever she wants to do. We have to deal with it. [/QUOTE]

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