Wayne,

How about U being my Campaign Manager we’ll build a large political war chest than bailout & take the $$$ & family's to some offshore island & live in the lap of luxury. Sounds good to me.

Alias:El Presidente Norm,

El Presidente Norm. I take the job. Everyone, just send your combutions to me & I will store the $ in my engine comparment.
Campaign Mgr. Wayne

Never thought my little observation would get so many responses.

Here is the Detroit News article Docsnow referred to.
http://www.detnews.com/a...0080107/METRO/801070366

'Makes me down right defensive.

I remember the record low levels of 1964, I spent a lot of time walking the shore of Lake Huron with a fishing pole, we are there now. Unless we get a lot more snow and rain, I'm picking out some shallow shoals and laying claim to them. I will have my own island before I die! Then I need to ask Al what kind of palm tree's should I be planting.

Seriously, would not a logical result of ice cap melting be more clouds? And aren't clouds a real good insulator?
Global Warming...Hog Wash!

Ice cores. As water freezes it traps tiny bubbles of the atmosphere and preserves the chemistry. Ice cores obtained at the south pole, north pole and Greenland reveal data from tens of thousands of years (long before man was capable of affecting the environment). When correlated with tree rings (revealing just a few hundred years) the data show a natural fluctuation in temperature, rainfall and carbon dioxide levels. The greatest factor influencing average planet temperatures is not CO levels, but ocean currents. If these ocean currents alter course (similar to the jet stream on a weather map) and arc farther north or south, the temperature of the water fluctuates and the ice ebbs or flows. We only recently discovered this phenominon when a cargo ship sank in the Pacific. Part of its cargo (yellow rubber duckies, I kid you not) spread out and were carried by the ocean currents and tracked for years by several groups. Research scientists live or die on their funding. Funding usually only buys the results the funders want. Now I'm depressed.

Dennis,

To reply to your ?
Why would scientists make this stuff up?

To put it simply these scientific studies & scientists will publish what ever the funding party wants them to release, reason being for future monies for some hair brain idea.
A example is the latest Nobel prize award winner & Hollyweirds Oscar Award for best documentary, yet that man wouldn’t know if he was standing in a rain storm. The award he should had received in my opinion would of been for being the lead Lemming. Another cover up in the Great Lakes is the zebra mussel they blame it on the foreign freighters bulltwinky they where brought in to clean up Lake Erie’s cyst pool of the 60's another government blunder along with the Asian lady bug, or the newest invasion of the flying silverhead carp etc. etc.. The communist cold war propaganda can’t hold a candle to our own governments BS.

Norm,

I'm not whistling Dixie

s Live on

Hell by that time I hope I am drinking beer and being cussed by pissed off husbands

Mike

Jeff,

Here I thought U where just another retired Marinette Capt, wow what a surprise I just encountered while reading some of the posts the weather channel was on, it showed it was snowing in Baghdad, Iraq. Now with your prediction of Global Cooling U ought to make a documentary they my award U the Nobel Peace Award, U weren't Just Dixie or was that Pi$$ prize

Norm, live on

I am not an eco-nut...BUT.... I think Lake Michigan and Huron is running out the St. Clair river. Our Michigan gerrymandering earmarkers have no talent and can't get the billions needed to plug it. Just like they can't keep southern legislators from colluding with Toyota to move our auto industry south and put us in a depression. Docsnow write this down. YOU CAN'T DRINK LAKE MICHIGAN DRY. That bottling water stuff is pure misdirection designed to confuse us. I do think that you have to tax most of our current packaging out of existance. Packing all those drinks and WalMart crap in plastic and then burying it is nuts. You need to use cardboard and burn it for the extra power. When I lived in Maryland I didn't mind trash because they burned everything they couldn't recycle. Up here in Michigan, not only are we not burning trash, we are burying Canada's. I guess Canada does not have enough room to bury their own trash. Think about this. Why do we buy milk which has a shelf life of less than a month in plastic bottles which will last hundreds of years?. What was wrong with waxed cardboard. As to Global Warming .. BRING IT ON.. I'm freezing up here. It's been below freezing for weeks. I wish man was causing it so we could speed it up, but that's dreaming. We are riding the earth like fleas ride a dog. WE AIN'T DRIVING. We are basically just trying to have a little fun until the next big meteor hit. End of Rant. By the way any of you Tennesee boaters know of any good places for my Big M. This winter is getting to me.

Got yer head on straight, Wooden Boat!

Saw a dopey Global Warming BS show last night in which the "scientist" made a statement to "prove" Global Warming: The number of polar bears on a certain island is diminishing. Wow! That was his "concrete" evidence! (Clue: They migrated elsewhere, you moron!)

Jeff

can you live aboard there ?