Global doom and gloom.

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watched a documentary some time ago now and these "things" come in cycles. It's all to do with the earths journey through space. Not just locally around the sun,
Hello; Another item to consider is the precession of the earths spin on it's axis. I is not to much but apparently there is a wobble. There is also the sunspot cycle to consider. Moulder minimum springs to mind. Best I recall there is a 22 year or so cycle of sunspots. Not sure if either or both of these have been ruled out as influencers of climate.

If you want something else to be afeared of look up deep ocean methane hydrate.


it was still climate change and it was going to destroy us all and it was still your fault.
Hello; Yes the still our fault is pretty much key to various power grabs by the folks who wish to save us from ourselves. I am likely to stop some of my magazine subscriptions when they run out. This electric car popularity is , to me, not the all saving move many seem to hope it is. Some aspects of these battery powered cars do not seem to be examined too closely. There is the mining of rare earth minerals for the batteries. Like gas powered cars there is the impact of manufacture.
I guess if by some sort of magic spell all the electric power grids could be generated by solar or wind or hydro orsome other such source that could make some difference. For any time frame I know of we in the USA will continue to generate with coal and natural gas. Some other countries have been building new coal fired power plants at a rate of around a new one every few weeks. No short term stuff there. A potential good aspect of electric cars is the power plants that makes the electricity is a point source so in theory could be simpler to clean up in terms of emissions compared to individual gas cars that are non point source.

Oh Oh, I thought of a positive. Our cars run much cleaner that decades ago.

Last thing; I do have a shaved part. My face.
 
Oh Oh, I thought of a positive. Our cars run much cleaner that decades ago.

You're definitely right about that. When my husband started his 1949 Studebaker Commander Starlight Coupe in the garage, we had to open all three garage doors to let the fumes dissipate. Probably good rodent control.

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What possessed you to do that? If that cat could talk I think I know exactly what it would be saying to you right now. Look at its eyes, it's not impressed one bit. Lol.

we get her back yard trimmed as her manx bottom collects turds...

she vomits a lot from her grooming habits and the shave cuts down on grooming = less vomit ?
 
That's a pretty good job you did with that lion cut. I've been too chicken to do ours. Their first lion cuts at the vet in January set me back $344.
 
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I had to take a couple long hair cats into the vet for twice a year lion cuts due to them not wanting to be groomed by me and their matting issues. Definitely not cheap to get it done but a necessary procedure. They do look funny for a couple months until their new coats start growing in so nice and soft.

I can't even imagine trying this at home as I would have been bleeding profusely from their refusal to let it get done.
 
Hello; I used a story of a pet cat of a lighthouse keeper in my environmental units. Sorry I do not recall the names or the place. The story went that there was a lighthouse on a small island. The keeper brought his cat with him. Cat had the run of the island and in time wiped out a particular species of birds living on that island. Again my recall is lacking but I think it was a ground nesting bird with the implication the birds had not before faced a predator like a cat before.

I guess the details of how some folks keep pet cats can be an issue. A friend has a cat whom he feeds well. He also lets the cat out to run about every day. He is proud of how the cat will bring small animals home to him. I have heard of such behavior from cats.

There was a city somewhere, Fort Lauderdale FLA maybe, where they had a bad feral cat problem. Could be some other city. The news report went that they started a program to capture as many of the feral cats as possible. The twist was a sufficient amount of people did not want the feral cats put down. So the captured cats were spayed and neutered, then released back onto the streets. Afraid this made little sense to me. I get that those particular cats could not further add to the cat population since they were then sterile, but while they lived it seemed to me they would still be taking the area birds and other small wildlife.
 
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Hello; I used a story of a pet cat of a lighthouse keeper in my environmental units. Sorry I do not recall the names or the place. The story went that there was a lighthouse on a small island. The keeper brought his cat with him. Cat had the run of the island and in time wiped out a particular species of birds living on that island. Again my recall is lacking but I think it was a ground nesting bird with the implication the birds had not before faced a predator like a cat before.

I guess the details of how some folks keep pet cats can be an issue. A friend has a cat whom he feeds well. He also lets the cat out to run about every day. He is proud of how the cat will bring small animals home to him. I have heard of such behavior from cats.

There was a city somewhere, Fort Lauderdale FLA maybe, where they had a bad feral cat problem. Could be some other city. The news report went that they started a program to capture as many of the feral cats as possible. The twist was a sufficient amount of people did not want the feral cats put down. So the captured cats were spayed and neutered, then released back onto the streets. Afraid this made little sense to me. I get that those particular cats could not further add to the cat population since they were then sterile, but while they lived it seemed to me they would still be taking the area birds and other small wildlife.

There are a lot of people that don't like cats for the very reason that you stated. I have a cat and he fetches all sorts home, he even fetched a fox cub home once (it was returned to the wild alive), and i've never heard of a cat doing that before.

The thing is, without having real numbers to hand of the local populations of the animals that cats routinely bring home, then no one can really say, with any degree of accuracy, if they are killing these animals and placing them in real danger or whether the cats are actually just keeping the numbers in check which is what nature intended, to a degree.

The example you give regarding the lighthouse keeper makes the cat look really bad, but in reality it was the lighthouse keeper who caused the ground nesting birds demise, by introducing what can only be described as an invasive species to the island mix.

And us fish keepers, more than most, are well versed on the subject of invasive species.
 
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