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FourScore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 10:11 PM Original message |
You Think It's Hot Now? Wait for Thermogeddon |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 10:17 PM Response to Original message |
1. Glad to be old and on the way out |
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CaptRandom (119 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 10:42 PM Response to Original message |
2. Eh, its cyclical.... |
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PATRICK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
3. The implications |
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iwonder2 (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 03:09 AM Response to Reply #3 |
16. by our own hands |
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Delphinus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 03:57 PM Response to Reply #16 |
26. Welcome, iwonder2, to DU. |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 12:34 AM Response to Original message |
4. When I was very young, I had a fantasy that humans had to live |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 12:41 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. I've been thinking on building cave like housing |
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Buns_of_Fire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 04:18 PM Response to Reply #5 |
30. Earth-sheltered housing. I've been dreaming of building something like that for years. |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 05:26 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Two piles of dirt with house in between |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 01:08 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Root cellars. My grandparents had one too. nt |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 01:12 AM Response to Reply #4 |
9. Yep--fruit cellar, is what we called it. |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 01:14 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. My grandmother's cellar was small. There was always a natural |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:19 AM Response to Reply #4 |
19. Root Cellar is the commonly used term.. |
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Lugnut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 12:46 AM Response to Original message |
6. I live in the Pocono Mtns of NE PA. |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:28 AM Response to Reply #6 |
22. I'm still doing so in Connecticut. |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:53 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Yeah, I'm on eastern Long Island by the ocean & it's getting harder here too. Three years ago |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 12:53 AM Response to Original message |
7. On the bright side, these hot humid conditions resemble the Carboniferous & Cretaceous periods |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 01:43 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. Actually, the Earth was in an ice age during the Carboniferous. |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:54 AM Response to Reply #12 |
25. We many be nearing a mini-Ice Age. Linked to sunspots? The thing about Climate Change |
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misanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 01:22 AM Response to Original message |
11. In the long term, there might be hope... |
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anarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 02:06 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. sometimes I wonder if that's not how it sorta works |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 01:46 AM Response to Original message |
13. Yikes! |
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wingzeroday (38 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 02:55 AM Response to Original message |
15. mmmmmmmmmmm |
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AverageJoe90 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 04:45 AM Response to Original message |
17. As much as I AM afraid of global warming......... |
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FourScore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:15 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. And your credentials on the matter are...??? n/t |
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BNJMN (461 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:24 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Cre-DEN-tials? We don't need no steenkin credentials... |
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BNJMN (461 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
20. Um, parts of the Earth are too hot for humans to survive without a/c...already? |
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FLPanhandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
23. On the upside, there will be far less humans on the planet. |
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Delphinus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 04:04 PM Response to Reply #23 |
28. Hmm ... |
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AsahinaKimi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
27. I have a new Theory.... |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
29. If it gets that hot the super-hurricanes will wipe the continents clean.. |
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