boji
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I'm not feeling the conspiracy these past few days... Fortunately I moved most of my diy builds to the floor above a few months ago.
High water mark...
High water mark...
I don't have a canoe, and my sump stays in the crawls space under my house to routinely pump water out. My property is on low ground, but i rearranged my rain drainage (after hurricane Katrina) so the water comes and goes relatively quickly. What does your local 100 year flood plain look like? Sorry about the flooding, water happens and can do a lot of secondary damage (like black mold).boji said:Send beer, a canoe, and a sump pump. Local Home Depots are (surprise!) fresh out...
Jarno said:Wrt global warming, IMHO it is not about if it is true or not (but the evidence is there so yeah), but can we afford waiting and finding out too late? It is very risky to wait.
boji said:Send beer, a canoe, and a sump pump. Local Home Depots are (surprise!) fresh out...
I call this the "Pascal's Wager" argument.Jarno said:Oh wow, that is sh*tty man. You need some of that dutch water management savvy overthere, hope you recover from this quickly, but yeah it does do a lot of damage. Maybe build another shed on columns?
Wrt global warming, IMHO it is not about if it is true or not (but the evidence is there so yeah), but can we afford waiting and finding out too late? It is very risky to wait.
benb said:I call this the "Pascal's Wager" argument.
(for what it's worth, I'm agnostic on GW/AGW)
They do both resemble religious belief systems. No offense intended toward believers in either.benb said:Yes, exactly. It's sort-of a game theory thing (game theory was invented much more recently than Pascal's time, but his Wager certainly looks like a precursor to it), a 2x2 matrix of four boxes. One dimension is whether or not you believe something is true (and you'll then act accordingly), and the other is whether or not it's actually true. In each of the four boxes is the conclusion of each combination of situations.
The argument is that the outcome of not believing something like God or AGW when it actually IS true is so horrible that "we should act like it's true regardless."
Even more interesting the older I get. :I don't necessarily endorse the conclusion of Pascal's Wager, but it's an interesting concept.
boji said:I didn't really mean to start a debate on GW, however my intuition says it's simple thermodynamics on a grand scale- if you take 50 million + years of organic material imbued with the power of the sun, then release this stored energy into the atmosphere in a mere 500 hundred years, you're bound to see changes to the planet that significantly disrupt the biosphere.
boji said:Wish I lived near ya Ian, I'd buy you a beer over it. Reviews of that book are generally favorable, however I tend to trust (ok, on faith) multinational science academy data. To me it's like rainwater; very persuasive when found in aggregate.
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