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Anything not associated directly with sailing is wrong. It's just wrong. We shouldn't wait for the climate to warm up to go sailing. OK, maybe wait for it to melt if it's frozen, but that's just a personal preference. It really doesn't need to be all that warm. ;-)

 

Power is a regulated utility. In one state you pay $0.15/kwh, but if you have a rooftop solar array you are paid $0.21! Plus you can carry over excess summer production into the winter. And if you still are producing excess power you can "sell" it to your neighbors rather than give it to the power company.

 

In ONE state. You say.
More and more states are adopting net meter laws, requiring the utilities to buy 2.5% green energy.
Who knows how it's going to work out and who will make money?

Maybe, eventually, you'll be able to retire on your homes solar and wind production.
Today, it would be wise to first research everything you need to do in order to sell back power to your utility.
Before you spend thousands of dollars on a larger system than your home needs at a sustenance level.
I don't expect to sell power to the marina.

 

You don't need it to melt before sailing if you have skates on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_yachting

 

I thought melting ice was supposed to be a nightmare horror apocalyptic retribution by mother nature as punishment for our sins of pollution?

 

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HEALING THE HEALER: A promise to the Amazon

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/healing-the-healer-a-promise-to-the-amazon--2#/

I'm crossing the whole of Amazon by boat to help save our rainforest. Jump in, it's just a ride.

THE PROMISE

I made this promise 8 months ago, as I was leaving the Peruvian Amazon filled with gratitude for the rainforest and its people.

I had just been healed.

Stunned by the Amazon’s immense beauty but also struck by its savage devastation, I made a promise to return, to help Heal the Healer in return.

Fact is our greatest biological treasure on earth is being destroyed at a heart breaking rate to serve our modern world’s unsustainable demands.

At first I didn’t know how to fulfil my promise. How can one person help the world’s largest rainforest?

Truth is the vehicle of change is global awareness. For the destruction to end, the world needs to know what’s happening in the Amazon.

After months of savings, researching, planning, I'm ready to fulfil my promise.

With your help,

I will cross the whole of the Amazon by Boat.

4000 miles, 4 months, 3 rainforest conservation projects.

I ask you to jump on board. Through rain and shine we will cross from Peru to Ecuador, and from Colombia to the end of the river in Brazil. Mile by mile, I will share with you the rainforest’s beauty but also its destruction from the inside.

The goal of my journey is to inspire people to make changes in their own lives that help reduce deforestation, to push corporations to adopt zero deforestation policies and to demand that governments create laws that reduce devastation and promote genuine conservation.

I ask you to share this journey with others, to spread the message and help Heal the Healer together.

You may wonder how I found myself in the Amazon in the first place, so let’s rewind back a bit…

Until about a year ago, I walked a fairly conventional path – uni, a series of jobs, my own design business in a big city. That’s when I asked myself:

Is my life sustainable for myself and the planet?

The inconvenient truth was right in my face. No, there was nothing sustainable in working long hours often serving a system I did not believe was serving any good, so I can pay a huge rent for a tiny space, accumulating stress of unfulfillment, only to release it through undeniably unhealthy habits so I can... go back to work.

Without a second thought I gave away my stuff, quit my flat, and with a backpack and a camera, I left the big city. Without really knowing where I'm going, but feeling sure I'm going where I'm supposed to go, I embarked on a mission:
The Amazon rainforest is vanishing at a rate of 20,000 square miles a year. It’s being cleared by chainsaws, bulldozers and fires for its timber value and then is followed by mining, farming and ranching operations, even by world giants like Mitsubishi Corporation, Gerogia Pacific, Texaco and Unocal.

About 20% of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed in the last 30 years, leading to murderings and massive displacements of native people, extinction of tens of thousands of species and huge carbon emissions.

 

The Constitution is flexible enough to allow most any democratic change.

The courts follow the laws of the land, which are made by legislators. I expect the Supreme Court will soon be a liberal majority. The Federal House and Senate may change hands (again!!) in the next election, due to the extreme incompetence of the current Republican majority.

The military is already on-board with recognizing and adapting to Climate Change.

We're all patriots, not just the extreme right-wingers. If the extreme right-wingers start armed vigilante action I suspect it will quickly backfire on them.

Long story short. Your days are numbered...

 

Some good news

Remote reefs thrive despite climate change | Union-Tribune

 

Keep dreaming on.

But first read 9th and 10th amendments and article 5.

I suspect some people who claim to be patriots, say they love this country, love it the way they love chocolate cake. Want to consume it!
Gobble it up and our rights with it!

You are right. I'm an old man, but still a strong one.

I fought for my country as a volunteer when I was young.
Do you think I'm afraid of dying young now?

 

"show that coral reefs surrounding remote islands were dramatically healthier than those in populated areas that were subject to a variety of human impacts.

“There are still coral reefs on this planet that are incredibly healthy and probably look the way they did 1,000 years ago,”


So! Another AGW myth bites the dust.
It IS human pollution harming coral reefs.

But NOT GLOBAL WARMING OR CO2 absorbed in the ocean.

Or, if you still claim it is, then you MUST explain how the remote islands can be immune to "global" warming and CO2 ocean concentration.
Another dimension? Time portal? What?
Occam's razor says AGW is wrong, is best explanation.

 

The CONSTITUTION is the SUPREME Law of the Land.
And made or modified ONLY by the States.

Climate change isn't a new phenomenon, and the military is prepared to adapt to changing situations.

That does NOT mean they endorse AGW or that AGW is a valid excuse for socialists to take over the country.

Check your math on Senate and House seats open for election and how many you need to win control.
You need to gain 30 in the House and 5 in the Senate to win control of both.
There aren't that many republican held seats coming open for election this year.
But I care for neither party.
And deadlock is designed into our system. It's SUPPOSED to be difficult to pass new laws! Founding fathers designed it that way. That's why the CNC has a veto just in case they DO get it passed by both houses.

And I didn't threaten vigilante action.

I said, quote "You would have to have a vast majority and lead an armed rebellion to change the USA to socialism." that you couldn't win.

Days of AGW as a socialist movement, are waning fast!

Because ALL your predictions keep failing!

 

We have to stop dragging our knuckles on these issues.

 

Which issues are we dragging knuckles on?
If you mean the failed hypothesis that man's CO2 is causing climate change?
Preventing precipitous and knee jerk reactions to manufactured panic is WISE and definitely not avoiding the issue.

The USA decided after careful and lengthy investigation it would be FOOLISH to adopt the socialist's agendas.
Apparently other nation's governments are not as wise.

Not knuckle dragging, but very decisive careful prudent attention and action.

Action you disapprove of, is still action.
Deciding NOT to leap off a cliff is more important than deciding to leap!
Though not as dramatic consequences, certainly more long range forward looking and a happier future are the results!

 

What I like about Socialism is the Secularism part that is a way of life and thinking that rejects religion. So if you're into secularismas , you're not into God, going to church, praying, or anything holy.

Some people dig religion. Other people don't. And it's those people that live a life of secularism, far removed from anything that has to do with God or church. Instead of worrying about heaven or hell, secularism focuses on life as it is on Earth. People who are secularists particularly believe that religious ideas and beliefs should have nothing to do with government affairs or public education or boat design forum "thank Sai Baba"

 

The USA was founded by people seeking religious freedom, not freedom from religion.

I agree with you socialism and secularism and atheism and statism all slices of the same pie.
You want the state central government to be the highest authority and dispenser and revoker of privileges .

In the USA, our RIGHTS don't come from the government. The government is forbidden to mess with our Rights!
Government cannot dictate a state religion. Not even atheism.
Government, invented by men, is NOT the highest authority.

And socialism is our enemy.
So all ya'll socialists in the US, if you want freedom from religion, head on over to myark's place.
Except you can't escape your selves. http://thinkprogress.org/justice/20...t-court-declares-secular-humanism-a-religion/ Atheism IS a religion.
This is OUR country! In God we trust!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_we_trust
""In God We Trust" is the official motto of the United States.
It is also the motto of the U.S. State of Florida."

And apparently you DO think boat design forum is a place to preach your politics and atheistic religion.

and my patriotic duty to keep refuting you.

Stay away from those topics, and I will.