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Climate Change? Nahhh ...

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Riptide, Oct 23, 2015.

  1. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    I meant August, not June - run off is pretty much well, run off and rains are still a month away. Throw in the agricultural needs into August (corn) and it's not a surprise. There probably needs to be long-term planning and improved water retention efforts - perhaps even building interstate pipelines for water to move it around depending on needs. But only if states agree to limit growth.
     
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  2. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    It feels like something he’d write himself.
     
  3. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    @BTExpress The real question is why are none of the Oak Ridge Boys from Oak Ridge? People are asking. They ain't even from Tennessee, and hell, two of 'em are yankees.
     
  4. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Because the only people in Oak Ridge when the band originated in 1943 were government workers and their families.

    They were asked to sing for the restricted workers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory so often that they eventually changed their name to The Oak Ridge Quartet.
     
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  5. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    And before that, they were Wally Fowler and the Georgia Clodhoppers.
     
  6. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    The best part is the Oak Ridge Boys sang backup for Jimmy Buffett on "My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, and I Don't Love Jesus" but did it on the down low because they were a gospel quartet.
     
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  7. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

  8. Octave

    Octave Well-Known Member

    Twirling Time-

    That's just it - who needs a water bill like that. I might as well light money on fire.
     
  9. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Your individual decisions are meaningless.

    Remember, unless your solution is perfect, global, instantaneous, simultaneous, free - and gets sign-off from that family in Kansas - it is wishful thinking only. A prayer.

    It is a religion.™
     
  10. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    All facetiousness aside, my guess is that our individual decisions are not going to get us very far, and the path we are on is: 1) things getting more dire; destructive environmental occurrences affecting more and more people; people no longer being able to just ignore it. 2) Only when things affect enough people on a big enough scale, and perhaps natural resources (such as supply of water) get scarce (and maybe expensive), do we get a coordinated response (essentially forcing people to change their behaviors, rather than relying on individual decisions).
     
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  11. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    Sigh.
     
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  12. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    I know.
     
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