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Well, I can’t complain. Had I not stopped the truck and got rear-ended, I would have been t-boned in the drivers door by a guy doing 50mph or better. I walked away with a concussion and whiplash, and my damn ears won’t stop ringing. So at this point I’m just happy I’m home and not recovering in the hospital, or lying in the morgue.
Well, this one’s not going to sell. Friday, durring work, someone was nice enough to blow a red light on Hwy 31 and 142 in Kenosha, causing me to get rear-ended. That’s all for Geo-Jimmy.
I guess I could change the title to “Parts Truck For Sale”. 🙁
TDSKid turns ten, I’m getting old.
😆 😆 😆
Ohh, Ohh, Ohh, will that protect me from bullets and lighting and stuff?!?!? 😆
Awww, you meant the shield for the GPS huh? 😉
Warning:
Latest News on Global Warming May Cause Soiling of TrousersBy SETH BORENSTEIN – Sep 25, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — Worldwide man-made emissions of carbon dioxide — the main gas that causes global warming — jumped 3 percent last year, international scientists said Thursday.
That means the world is spewing more carbon dioxide than the worst case scenario forecast by a Nobel Prize-winning group of international scientists in 2007. Scientists said if the trend does not stop, it puts the world potentially on track for the highest predicted rises in temperature and sea level.
The pollution leader was China, followed by the United States, which past data show is the leader in emissions per capita in carbon dioxide output. And while several developed countries slightly cut their CO2 output in 2007, the United States churned out more.
Still, it was large increases in China, India and other developing countries that spurred the growth of carbon dioxide pollution to a record high of 9.34 billion tons of carbon (8.47 billion metric tons). Figures released by science agencies in the United States, Great Britain and Australia show that China’s added emissions accounted for more than half of the worldwide increase. China passed the United States as the No. 1 carbon dioxide polluter in 2006.
Emissions in the United States rose nearly 2 percent in 2007, after declining the previous year. The U.S. produced 1.75 billion tons of carbon (1.58 billion metric tons).
Gregg Marland, a senior staff scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, said he was surprised at the results because he thought world emissions would drop because of the economic downturn. That didn’t happen.
“If we’re going to do something (about reducing emissions), it’s got to be different than what we’re doing,” he said.
The emissions, which are based on data from oil giant BP PLC and look at the burning of fossil fuel and production of cement, show that China has become the major driver of world trends. China emitted 2 billion tons of carbon (1.8 billion metric tons) last year, up 7.5 percent from the previous year.
“We’re shipping jobs ashore from the U.S., but we’re also shipping carbon dioxide emissions with them,” Marland said. “China is making fertilizer and cement and steel and all of those are heavy energy-intensive industries.”
Developing countries not asked to reduce greenhouse gases by the 1997 Kyoto treaty — and China and India are among them — now account for 53 percent of carbon dioxide pollution. Developing countries surpassed industrialized ones in carbon dioxide emissions in 2005, a new analysis of older figures shows.
India is in position to beat Russia for the No. 3 carbon dioxide polluter behind the United States, Marland said. Indonesia levels are increasing rapidly.
Denmark’s emissions dropped 8 percent. The United Kingdom and Germany reduced carbon dioxide pollution by 3 percent, while France and Australia cut it by 2 percent.
What is “kind of scary” is that the worldwide emissions growth is beyond the highest growth in fossil fuel predicted just two years ago by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said Ben Santer, an atmospheric scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
Under the panel’s scenario then, temperatures would increase by somewhere between 4 and 11 degrees Fahrenheit (2.4 to 6.3 degrees Celsius) by the year 2100.
“We do have control over what happens over the next several decades,” Santer said. “This illustrates the importance of exercising that control.”
@Johnny Cache wrote:
@rogheff wrote:
I was always on the lookout for anything that could be used as a cache container.
We know!!!
Yeah, and he does mean anything!
Welcome to the WGA, Wisconsins greatest caching resource.
@Mathman wrote:
@tyedyeskyguy wrote:
I don’t get many bragging rights in this league, so I’ll toot my own horn for this. I finally won a game! And knocked Zuma off the undefeated list at the same time.
Sorry Ralph!
😀
I believe you should be awarded the “Manager of the Week” award. Great job!
Thanks! I made a good trade,was offered some good advice, and went shopping for more talent by adding/dropping players. I think that I only have one or two players starting, that were originally drafted. Hopefully I’ll be better competition in the future.
Good time to talk about this.
Now is the season when all these plants are seeding. These Hitch-hikers also help to spread invasive species plants. So if you’re going to be caching in more than one forest/area in a particular day, try to look over your clothes and remove as many of the seeds that you can before you move on to the next area. Also don’t forget to check your geopets for the same thing. This really helps in taming the spread.
I don’t get many bragging rights in this league, so I’ll toot my own horn for this. I finally won a game! And knocked Zuma off the undefeated list at the same time.
Sorry Ralph!
😀
Roger,
I like the idea. And I have also found the same to be true of my caches when it comes to decoration, unzipped bags, missing pens and pencils and crap swag, except for a certain few caches.
Walmart duct tape turns bright blue and falls off quickly,
Ziplocks aren’t really waterproof cause no one closes them.
Pill bottles suck.
O-rings on containers fall apart unless they are oiled every three or four months. Replace these o-rings with automotive grade ones and they last longer.
Animals do take caches. Some of them walk on two feet, some don’t.
Micro’s in the woods suck, but in the right place they are loads of fun. You know you have a great micro as soon as it disappears.
Pens and pencils evaporate when left to the elements.
When good geo-swag dies, it becomes rocks and old golf balls.
Great geoswag stays… FOREVER, unfortunately. “Signs” has been open for 13 months. It still contains a DVD player and a Sony Sport portable CD player, among other cool items.
Ammo cans fill with water when placed on a breakwater. 🙂
Roger, I look forward to the “new you”. I just hope you can keep the new stuff as much fun as the old, though less frustration in caching could be a good thing for me right now too.
At the right of the screen (in your photo album) there is a dropdown box. Click it, then click “Add Photos”.
Gee, if each find was worth $1,000,000,000, you could bail out our countries banking system single-handedly! <---Is that a real word? 😆
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