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here is a review of the methods used for determining human impact on greenhouse gases
I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions
I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions
You're right. Time flies. It was actually 50 years ago.That claim is patently and absolutely false and shows your complete and utter ignorance of the science.
You're right. Time flies. It was actually 50 years ago.
50 years ago, scientists puzzled over a slight global cooling
Five decades ago, scientists were puzzled over a slight dip in global temperatures. Today we know it was just a blip, and that Earth’s climate is warming thanks to industrial activity over the last century.www.sciencenews.org
Thanks CJ. It looks like we may have another 3,000 years of warming to look forward to before we drop into a freezer again.
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Depending on how much warming we experience, we may lose Florida and some of our coastal cities and the Isthmus of Panama. Sorry Doc, New Orleans is a goner. Studying maps of the Earth's land mass over time shows that Florida is pretty tenuous as is the Mississippi delta. In fact, the center of North America was ocean and that is why we find ocean creature fossils there. What does this mean? Is it "normal" for Florida to be underwater? Seems to be. So, why would everyone be so upset about it returning to its "natural" state? I like Florida. I lived in Miami. I would hate to see it go but it is just not natural.
The cornet has such a distinctive and mellow sound compared to the trumpet. It's impressive that you started with the accordion and then picked up both the organ and the cornet. How did you find the transition from accordion to the brass instruments?It was technically a cornet, not a full-length trumpet, thought both play as B-flat instruments and have the same range. The cornet isn't QUITE as brassy as a true trumpet. I don't recall the brand name. Wasn't a King, but it WAS a brand that was commonly found in my junior-high school band, because I bought it used from them.
Organ is my best instrument but accordion was my FIRST instrument and trumpet came second in terms of learning.
I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions
I too would retire when I reach my 70's no matter how much I love my hobby. Kudos to your effort in learning your hobby.@murphybridget
The transition to brass was difficult because I had to build up an "lip" for the cup-mouth instrument and I never did quite manage fast triple-tongue technique. But my brass teacher of the time was in his 70s and chose to retire a couple of years later. Can't say I blame him, he was beginning to get a little decrepit and I think he was just getting tired. Shortly before he retired, circumstances brought a spinet organ into the home during summer when I was off from school and I learned to play with the new toy. That was the start of a long love affair with keyboards. I left trumpet behind and worked on my keyboards.
A local music dealership was affiliated with the Lowrey Organ Company and they sold that line of instruments. (Lowrey's parent company also made Story and Clark instruments, so it wasn't hard to find that line either.) My mom was invited by a friend and she won the door prize - one month "free" use of an organ in the home and 4 free lessons. Mom got the lessons but I was home all day and by the end of that month, I could play every hymn in the SongDex Hymnal. Mom started the sequence by upgrading to the next model of spinet. We started with the Lowrey Carnival model, then the Holiday and Brentwood models, then the Lowrey Lincolnwood. (Brentwood and Lincolnwood are neighborhoods in Chicago where the organ was made.) By then I was working, making good money. I started taking over the purchases and traded up the Lincolnwood for a Celebration (C-500) which was a Theater console. That thing could shake the house!
Lowrey took a direction I didn't like after that and when it was time to trade up again, I refused to buy the MX-1 because it was SO heavily invested in automation that I didn't like it at all. I didn't need the automation and it would have gotten in my way. So I switched to the Technics brand. Except for the time after Katrina, I had an organ in my home since I was 12 years old. The gap after Katrina was the only time I didn't have an organ, but six years later I found the replacement and I've still got it. If I ever hit it big in the lottery, I MIGHT upgrade one more time to a Wersi 3-manual model, but I'm not going to swear to that one.
Yes. And it is happening despite shouty idiots telling us that moving away from fossil fuels would send us back to the stone age.It's been achieved by market forces, by capitalism....
And it is happening despite shouty idiots telling us that moving away from fossil fuels would send us back to the stone age.
Although as a consumer, I don't understand why if wind is free and sunshine is free, my cost of electricity is going up with these "free" power sources.
Like Harry and Megan, where Harry flies to his polo match in a private jet and then they lecture us on climate change.I wish I owned a yacht and a private jet... So I could preach to the world
about climate change.
Have these people no self-awareness?
Was it John Travolta or Harrison Ford who took the kids out for burgers two states away on his jet?Or John Travolta who says we must all do our bit regarding climate change, whilst simultaneously owning 7 private jets.
Why won't any of them buy the carbon offsets I'm trying to sellIt's a scam for the little people who are easily persuaded.
They are right. It's not just moving away, it's blind government mandates to force the timetable.Yes. And it is happening despite shouty idiots telling us that moving away from fossil fuels would send us back to the stone age.