Global Warming

[Callaway]

I would like us all to recognize that John Muir was nobody's wimp!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir

[DirtDawg]

I would like us all to recognize that John Muir was nobody's wimp!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir

Our Internet Librarian strikes, again! Thanks, Callaway.

... but doesn't everyone know who John Muir was?

[Pyraxis]

Not until I read this thread, I didn't.

[Callaway]

I would like us all to recognize that John Muir was nobody's wimp!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir

Our Internet Librarian strikes, again! Thanks, Callaway.

... but doesn't everyone know who John Muir was?

I knew because I used to live in California, but I thought some others might not know him.

[odeon]

After Global Warming We will have a new Ice Age.

Well, actually it's a possible consequence of global warming, yes. Melt some of Greenland and you'll stop the Golf Stream, and you'll have a new ice age in no time.

Greenland is melting.

Yes. We should all be scared.

[Pyraxis]

I knew because I used to live in California, but I thought some others might not know him.

Well, I grew up in Canada, where everyone knows people live in igloos with no electricity or running water, let alone mass media... 

[Callaway]

I knew because I used to live in California, but I thought some others might not know him.

Well, I grew up in Canada, where everyone knows people live in igloos with no electricity or running water, let alone mass media... 

Where in Canada did you grow up, Pyraxis?

[Pyraxis]

Winnipeg. And I only lived in an igloo 6 months of the year...

[DirtDawg]

... as is Antarctica. Google B15 iceberg, for instance.

How about a picture? Seventy six miles long by seventeen miles wide, broken free from the Ross Ice Shelf, but that's just the big one. There are many more giant ones than normal, in the last few years.

[Callaway]

Winnipeg. And I only lived in an igloo 6 months of the year...

Have you ever really spent even one night in an igloo, Pyraxis?  We built one in our back yard once, but we only played it it in the daytime.  The snow we have now is not good for igloo building.

[Leto729]

I would like us all to recognize that John Muir was nobody's wimp!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir

Our Internet Librarian strikes, again! Thanks, Callaway.

... but doesn't everyone know who John Muir was?

I did.

[DirtDawg]

I would like us all to recognize that John Muir was nobody's wimp!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir

Our Internet Librarian strikes, again! Thanks, Callaway.

... but doesn't everyone know who John Muir was?

I did.

I guess I am expecting too much, for non-Americans to know of him and his work. I place the blame, for allowing his contributions as a Great American to tumble into historical obscurity, directly on the shoulders of every American.

... except mine of course.

His work was much more important to all our futures than many can even comprehend. Ignoring his foresight is another example of the swaggering hubris, all too common in modern western culture, which may prove to be a conductive path to our undoing or, at least, our misery.

[Pyraxis]

His work was much more important to all our futures than many can even comprehend.

How so?

[Pyraxis]

Have you ever really spent even one night in an igloo, Pyraxis?  We built one in our back yard once, but we only played it it in the daytime.  The snow we have now is not good for igloo building.

No. I was just making fun of the fact that one time when I visited California when I was 12, and said I was from Canada, I was asked by other kids whether I lived in an igloo. They honestly seemed to think I might.

The closest I've come is to carve snow forts out from the huge piles of snow that the plows leave, or build tunnels.

[Scrapheap]

I knew because I used to live in California, but I thought some others might not know him.

Where in California did you live ??