tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9799907.post3410185002521547071..comments2024-03-21T03:35:20.539-04:00Comments on writing as jo(e): Text Messagejo(e)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01488562158252331555noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9799907.post-29579492784214211322007-02-23T14:17:00.000-05:002007-02-23T14:17:00.000-05:00Education, as proven by your students, is the obvi...Education, as proven by your students, is the obvious answer to get things started in the right direction. Instead, we're up against willful ignorance, beginning at the top with you-knoW-Who.Bittyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13328808801958155196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9799907.post-12054947510906274182007-02-23T07:31:00.000-05:002007-02-23T07:31:00.000-05:00Your students are correct this time, too.Catastrop...Your students are correct this time, too.<BR/><BR/>Catastrophic global climate change might convey the extent of what's coming. Although the degree of the catastrophy is still somewhat in question.<BR/><BR/>I especially like the oceanography predictions. Age of slime, anyone?<BR/><BR/>Yeah.Jodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18380822736915028078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9799907.post-41153259438527925012007-02-23T02:35:00.000-05:002007-02-23T02:35:00.000-05:00Ooh, I love the ominous tone. Nice. My dad is a ...Ooh, I love the ominous tone. Nice. My dad is a meerologist who used to do tv and radio weather. For years I have asked him about global warming, and always the same reply: that you can only measure these things by long-term trend studies, and that we have cold centuries and warm centuries. El nino. Climatological changes that can only be understood from the perspective of eras, or millenia. Now even he's convinced.<BR/><BR/>Great post.Sfrajetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18028612571210445296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9799907.post-79156112464516148492007-02-22T21:04:00.000-05:002007-02-22T21:04:00.000-05:00It is scarey and as much as we can all do our part...It is scarey and as much as we can all do our part, how much is it really going to help? That is the question that scares me the most.BeachMamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17936777379292996065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9799907.post-11819706282356498552007-02-22T21:03:00.000-05:002007-02-22T21:03:00.000-05:00There was a guy on NPR this afternoon saying we're...There was a <A HREF="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7551080" REL="nofollow">guy on NPR</A> this afternoon saying we're so wealthy, surely we can fix problems with the climate as they hit us, without having to change the way we live now. Whatever.How can people be so deluded?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08235049965406944684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9799907.post-76336959125523473302007-02-22T20:52:00.000-05:002007-02-22T20:52:00.000-05:00Climate meltdown? I love that. I am bringing th...Climate meltdown? I love that. I am bringing that suggestion to class tomorrow.jo(e)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01488562158252331555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9799907.post-39026448982336296572007-02-22T20:49:00.000-05:002007-02-22T20:49:00.000-05:00There was an interview with a scientist from NASA ...There was an interview with a scientist from NASA in last week's NYT magazine, and the interviewer asked him what he thinks global warming should be called instead (he deemed g.w. "cozy and comfortable"). His suggestion was "climate meltdown".Ianquihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03268223727887685830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9799907.post-89863318981283610252007-02-22T20:30:00.000-05:002007-02-22T20:30:00.000-05:00hey jo(e)! Thanks for commenting on my photoblog....hey jo(e)! Thanks for commenting on my photoblog.<BR/><BR/>I previously visited your blog, from the link on JulieUnplugged, but I just perused, admired and lurked :).<BR/><BR/>Anyway, your stories about your students certainly don't make me feel very warm and fuzzy about global climate change.Ampersandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14469014547016164445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9799907.post-52418515469086771382007-02-22T18:41:00.000-05:002007-02-22T18:41:00.000-05:00Sometime in the 2002-2003 school year one of my de...Sometime in the 2002-2003 school year one of my debaters wrote a debate case titled, "Save New Orleans". He found all the information in on-line sources and more or less was right on with the amount of death and destruction.<BR/><BR/>I figure if a 19 year-old college sophamore could figure out it was only a matter of time before a Katrina-level storm happened, those in charge should have seen it coming.Inside the Philosophy Factoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12255753259090709877noreply@blogger.com