Not exact matches
Incumbent highway superintendent Brian Stiscia petitioned the Gardiner Town Board for the change in term,
arguing that the present
system requires too much of the superintendent's time to be spent on campaigning during the limited months when
weather conditions are favorable for road repairs.
While he
argues persuasively that there are glimmerings of «meta - thinking» in Metaman's global banking
systems and
weather forecasting, he goes on to make more questionable assertions about artificial intelligence and «meta - consciousness».
If we already had a carbon neutral energy
system, would you
argue that it is OK to melt the ice caps, shift
weather patterns, acidify the oceans, etc, so we could be a few per cent richer?
This collaborative approach is a far cry from the warnings of Australian ethicist and geoengineering critic Clive Hamilton, who has
argued China's history of
weather manipulation, top - down political
system and urgent environmental challenges make it a likely contender to use geoengineering technology on its own without sharing its know - how with other countries.
Assuming that temperature is rising and that this is because of GHG effects (not
arguing otherwise, just stating the givens), one would do well to look at data from other worlds in our solar
system to determine where the «wild»
weather is — and it is in the colder places, not the hotter ones.
He posits that today's overcrowded, waste - strewn coups of industrial agriculture are not only not objectionable to the birds («the turkeys don't seem to mind,» he says of the teeming coups), but are the compassionate choice,
arguing: «protected from the
weather and predators, today's turkeys may not be aware that they are a part of a morally reprehensible
system.»
Geoengineers
argue that such methods would be an inexpensive way to reduce global warming, but scientists have warned it could have catastrophic consequences for the Earth's
weather systems.