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History is personal and impersonal. Ice ages and warm periods have been documented both within the fossil record and in recent memory. Here in Maryland USA, I can remember winters with snow drifts taller than my dad's head. Made good tunnels for the well wrapped Cub Scout. Photoes in the magazine of storms that closed the rail road systems. The last few years have been noticably less snowy. Last year, it hardly made sense to put the plow on the front of my son's truck. Do ICE contribute to the climate ? Look to London's coal smoke clouds, Los Angeles' smog. Certainly. Do they contr

I was under the impression that these international Scouting organizations (which I know relatively little about) concentrated on assisting the Scouting organization in countries around world and did not engage in political and policy advocacy. I took a three-minute peek at their web site and see mention of political and policy matters on which countries would take varying positions. Does anyone know if the BSA has granted this organization authority to adopt and express policy positions on behalf of the BSA and its members?

The Arctic is warming more than three times as fast as the average, meaning that I believe my senses and my memory and I believe my parents' generation when they talk about how winters were when they were children. I also trust my fellow scientists , especially to rip each other apart if someone's wrong. I'm sorry, @InquisitiveScouter, I like you a lot, but there's no web link that's going to make me doubt my own eyes or believe that an entire community of my colleagues is perpetrating a hoax. When my mother was young, the ice in the Gulf of Bothnia froze thick enough that the Department

This has been our Pack's issue. Many adults want to help the day of the event, but no planning or strategy discussions before the event.

I did the Forbes Trail on opening day... great fun. I am the advisor for our new Erie Canal Historic Trail that kids 10 to 18 can hike, bike or boat... https://www.williamhillcourtmuseum.org/announcing-a-new-award-that-can-be-earned-the-erie-canal-trail-medal-and-patch

And, the reality that "justice" is not a finite concept and ambiguous for the most part. Those harmed or at least feeling harmed always will say "justice" is not served, no matter what. Our legal system is such that the lawyers can play games for decades in some cases, certainly for months at least, and whatever happens, "justice" is not served for somebody, and the balance of Her scales will not be therre.

What is the right amount of global heat? What is the goal of this effort? Is it to create some kind of climate stasis? What is an "acceptable amount" of climate change? (Because, it has changed across the eons...) Whom are we to believe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6GS2HjCg-M&ab_channel=MallenBaker https://www.lobservateur.com/2023/08/20/experts-say-climate-change-is-a-hoax/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/markhendrickson/2012/09/16/climate-change-hoax-or-crime-of-the-century/?sh=4e2a06df76d3 https://www.prageru.com/video/is-there-really-a-climate-eme