OBLIC'S PROFILE

Wow... I think people are more passionate here than the religion conversation. Who'd have thought?

In terms of "carbon taxing" (or more specifically, carbon credits), it's pretty much a scam. Most of the websites that deal in carbon credits are made in people's basements, usually by a single person. For the most part, all they do is collect money from people that feel guilty about how much carbon (or whatever the site seems to be worrying about) into the atmosphere. Al Gore (I'm so glad someone else bashed his ass... now I feel like I can open up a bit) has his own carbon credit site. He actually used it to say "I pay carbon credits! See here? I gave umpteen million dollars to this site!" Fortunately for him, he basically paid himself. Douche...

Maybe "carbon taxing" is a bit different, but I don't see how it could work any better. Yes, imposing regulations can help something grow into something better, but if the regulations kill that something, it only hurts the system as a whole. Plus, you can't fix problems just by throwing money at it.

Also, California is a pretty bad example to use in order to support a claim that things are working, in any area. Last I heard, they're not doing to hot. I don't know what the core cause is, but my point still stands that the state is pretty much broke.

I'm well aware. That was kind of the point.

Oh, you guys... pandering for votes... FOR SHAME! I would NEVER ask people to vote for me by spring-boarding off of these shameful comments! Seriously, it's not like I think my submissions ARE TOTALLY THE BEST!!!

So yea... play fair, will ya?

author=Shinan

author=Oblic
It is also believed that the earth was much MUCH hotter (an average of 60 C) at one point, before one of these ice ages.

60C? Really? A quick googling puts the biggest average temperature difference at around 10C and that's hundreds of millions of years apart. (with the top average temperature at 8C)

Of course the source I had (wikipedia :) only went back 500 million years. So the early earth was probably more extreme.

I wish could site my source... I saw it on a documentary. At that point in history (again, according to this source) there were no ice caps. The only reason the earth cooled was because the few bacteria that existed at the time made their energy through metabolizing methane, which is what was making the earth so hot. After the bacteria ate all the methane, the earth cooled to an ice age.

I am guessing this occurred VERY early in the history of living creatures (so about a billion years ago or so). But again, I can't recall where I got my information... if I had to guess, I was watching something on the science channel.

author=alexjones
you really shouldn't mark a game as completed unless the download is up, otherwise you get people excited over nothing.

Considering I've been following this game for years (not as long as some, but long enough) and I am still in one piece, I think everyone else should be able to hold it together a bit longer.



So, yea, chill... it's not the end of the world, right?