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We, in the Pacific Northwest, have become inured to eruption warnings and act blasé when the press mentions anything less than lava streaming down the side of the mountain or ash rising thousands of feet into the sky, threatening air traffic. I think there is some recent rumbling about the frequency and intensity of the rumblings, which may mean something, but the predictions are (understandably) couched in so much provisionality as to dissuade one from much notice.
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> as to dissuade one from much notice
sort of Son of Global Warming then? :I
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Well, I'm rapidly becoming convinced that global warming (caused by humans) is vastly overstated. That'll teach me to just accept what the avant garde scientists have to say without at least checking their facts!
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Yah, there are many here in the Pacific Northwest who do not believe in Global Warming -- at least not in the sense of something caused by leaking refigerators and the exhaust of SUVs. While that theory is close to the hearts of many of the greenest of the Greens in Seattle, I suspect that the majority thinks it is junk science, if they think about it at all.
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> majority thinks it is junk science, if they think about it at all [e.a.]
and this should reassure me, in the week Cali gets about 7" of rain in a few days?!
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Nothing thought by a majority ought ever reassure anybody of anything. After all, the majority thought the world was flat, that witches did not float, that words could turn stone into gold and that Michael Jackson was a harmless eccentric.
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How very interesting! Below is a definition of 'whelm' that is utilitarian (1st definition):
"1 : to turn (as a dish or vessel) upside down usually to cover something : cover or engulf completely with usually disastrous effect
2 : to overcome in thought or feeling "
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> Nothing thought by a majority ought ever reassure anybody of anything. After all, the majority thought the world was flat, that witches did not float, that words could turn stone into gold and that Michael Jackson was a harmless eccentric.
What's the current state of belief in the USA about curtains and a hidden man? <eg>
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