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Seabird wrote:

TD is like Tim, but without Tim's angst.

TD - Infidel (Tim) was a longterm member here. Like you, he is a scientist in the environmental field (MS from Rice) and his job involves remediation and clean up. T and I know him personally since we all live in the same town. I think you'll have less heartburn here than he did.

Not anymore. He moved to Austin a few weeks ago. He's still trying to sell his house here and I have been helping him out.

Seabird wrote:

Ah... I think Austin will suit him much better. Tell him I said hello.

Will do. Poor guy is having a hard time right now. He thought he sold his house, then the deal fell through. He already had an offer on another house in Austin but since his deal fell through the mortgage company wouldn't finance the loan without his downpayment. He lost his earnest money and everything.

So now he's staying with a friend in Austin and his family is in Houston. He has to start the process all over again. I've been talking to him almost every day trying to pry him off the ceiling. He doesn't handle stress to well.

T wrote:

So now he's staying with a friend in Austin and his family is in Houston. He has to start the process all over again. I've been talking to him almost every day trying to pry him off the ceiling. He doesn't handle stress to well.

Send him greetings for me.

Tell him I just e-chucked a lego block(the larger, Duplo kind) at his forehead.

Buho wrote:

Hi Turbio.  I just met you on the philosophy section.  Good thoughts all around.  Pleased to meet you!  I'm new, too.

You work on "climate change"?  Isn't that the PC phrase for "GLOBAL WARMING!!!"?

You don't perchance work in Boulder, do you?

I do work in Boulder. 

As for climate change...I actually prefer that to global warming.  I mean, there is a global warming trend, and the best evidence I've seen suggests it's anthropogenic.  (If you want to disagree with that, just start another thread - just wanted to explain myself here.)  But the fact that global temperatures are rising, while indicative of problems, isn't necessarily what I'm most concerned with.  The local and regional effects of that trend are what I'm more concerned with, because global temperatures are nearly irrelevant on ecosystem and bioregion scales.  And on those scales, the trends tend to be more complex.  Some areas haven't heated up at all, but rather are experiencing less precipitation and higher winds.  Some are experiencing dramatically elevated temperatures but more precipitation, but in seasons where it wouldn't be expected.  Some are experiencing negligible precipitation changes but changes in the timing of, say, spring and fall.  And there are other factors at work - nitrogen deposition, habitat loss, land use change, alteration of biogeochemical cycles - that, depending on locality, may be more important to the local ecosystem than climate change, or which are causing their own changes to the climate independent of greenhouse-driven global warming.  So I like "global change" or "climate change" because it's a little less specific and more inclusive.  Everything on earth is experiencing dramatic changes on scales and for reasons unprecedented in history, and that's the problem - of which global warming is a significant and over-publicized part.

Maybe I'm just misreading "baggage", but all it seems to me is a humorous description of myself.  Baggage implies negative connotations, to me.  What do you mean?

Jesus Is My Pilot wrote:

Mostly we will try not to hold the Vortex against you

Liar.

This is what I read -
The Car Lounge
Scientist
Teacher
Colorado
Conservation

You might even know Tim. He worked in Colorado for a bit and he's an environmental scientist.

T wrote:

You might even know Tim. He worked in Colorado for a bit and he's an environmental scientist.

I know a couple Tims, but they're all still here.

Hi Turbiodiesel,

Another TCLer here.  I'd say welcome, but you got here first and besides, it might seem unseemingly coming from another noob.  But what the hell, welcome anyway, even if I just got here.

Bart

Jesus Is My Pilot wrote:

I guess Turbo didn't like us

Unpossible.

Thundersnow wrote:

The fight or flight that can be present in discussions fascinates me.

Shut the fuck up.

Damn, Turbio is one of my favourite TCLers. Oh well.