[Lurkzilla]

Its my shot but all the credit should go to Benji for this incredible pic...

[lexustek192]

Great pic!! Where is everyone getting this dry weather from. Can't escape the snow and rain for me.

[olskool720]

we've got dry weather in the central valley of California.  come on out looksie.  another drought is going to mean a lot of water rationing this coming summer. dirty cars, no green lawns, empty lakes and reservoirs, dry rivers, increased prices on fruits and vegatables and meat, it just goes on and on and on...

but i digress, sorry.  a lot of nice Supes being worn lately

[jdz1502]

Climate change, what climate change...

[ez-1]

My past couple of weeks

[Lurkzilla]

Wow. . Nice shots Easy one, a seasoned collector if ever I saw one.

[lexustek192]

Amazing how much has changed/gone away in those pics olskool.

Nice shots ez.

[olskool720]

here in central California, we get our water from the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountain range.  no snow in the winter means no snow to melt when the weather warms up which means no water draining into rivers and creeks down into the valley.  my nearest ski resort is 90 minutes away.  been pretty much closed for three years now due to no snow.  my snowboard is getting dusty hanging on the wall.

[ez-1]

I'm not sure if the climate change is a real thing or is it just some sort of variation that might happen over decades, centuries or even millennia. Actually I don't really care which it is. More important IMO is that there are 7 billion people on planet Earth and more and more of them want to have equal rights and level of living.
The fact is that our current technologies, agricultural ways and such cannot possibly provide the same level of living for everyone.
This obviously is very sad and creates a dilemma. Western people - well most of us - have used for our lifestyle which lets us do pretty much anything we can afford money wise. And like always it is almost impossible to give up benefits we've already "gained".
So the question is, should we try to limit benefits of western people to match them to which standard Indian or Chinese people can afford or would it be ok for anyone to do what ever they can afford? I think there are other options too but I think this is where it really boils down to.

I know this sounds a bit treehuggerish and I really don't want to sound like a politician either as I ain't one and never will be. This is just a man thinking what's our future going to look like.
In California gallon of gas is $2,55/gallon, in Finland €1,359/litre. Translated to USD it is $5,83/gallon. I'm planning to have a very eco friendly car but since gasoline prices in US have gone down, people have been buying more big V8 cars than in years. Still this is small potatoes compared to for example China where people are buying almost half of all the cars produced this year. And most of those cars are not hybrids. Not even close.
Sorry for the rant

[flyingcod]

I read somewhere if China turned off all their coal fired power plants carbon emissions for the entire planet would reduce by 50%.



What the rest of the world does is piecemeal compared to that. 


fc

[ez-1]

Well said.

[Vortec]

[Lurkzilla]

They are so wrong yet so right.

[Lurkzilla]

Me again...

[Vortec]