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Find more information on Cape Cod ORV beach access at the following links:

• National Seashore beaches - Scroll down and click on link for oversand route information. Here's the June 3rd map
• Nauset Outer Beach - Town of Orleans Parks and Beaches Dept
• Sandy Neck ORV status

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• Mars is roughly 50 million miles further away from the sun than Earth.
• The Martian atmosphere, roughly 1/100th as dense as that of Earth, is like a thin blanket with lots of holes in it.
• Mars could be a whole lot colder. The fact that it's cold means nothing unless you consider how cold it would be without its CO2.

So, even though there's roughly 25X as much CO2 in the atmosphere of Mars as there is in Earth's, that CO2 is part of a thin and inadequate blanket. Heating wires alone do not make a comfy electric blanket, there needs to be substance to fill the gaps between the wires. Factor in the cooling effect of being 50 million miles further from the sun and it's not a mystery that Mars is cold.  And of course this ignores the many other factors that may make Earth especially susceptible to CO2 induced warming.  The CO2 argument is about balance. A glass of water that's 99.9% pure but has 0.1% arsenic in it will kill you. Sometimes a little is all it takes. Consider that the difference between 31.5F and 32.5F is the difference between frozen water and ice.  There's a whole lotta ice on the land masses of Greenland and Antarctica. Turn that into water and put that into the oceans and most of the East Coast of the USA is under water.

Even though the scientific consensus is that CO2 poses a meaningful risk to the climate, that consensus is not a certainty. Man made CO2 may or may not be the primary cause of Global Warming. The argument for doing something about Global Warming is not based on certainty that Earth is warming or that man-made CO2 is the cause. It's based on likelihood. The best evidence points to it.

It's reasonable to ask how much we should pay for Global Warming insurance and how effective that insurance will be. But it's foolish to say that Global Warming is a hoax and irresponsible to use the atmosphere of Mars to buttress such foolishness.

Coopers Beach Southampton NY

Here's the CNN article.

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The name "Figawi" is said to to originate from the race's tendency to be foggy. The New England sailor's pronunciation of "Where the @#$% are we?" during a foggy passage became lore and was shortened to the more socially acceptable "Figawi".

A more elaborate humorous explanation, in part based on the preceding origin, is the tale of a fictional band of nomad Indians that would wander from town to town. They were noted for always emphatically announcing themselves upon their arrival in Pidgin English, "We're the Figawi!" Sadly, this poor band was actually lost. Wandering from settlement to settlement, they kept asking where they were, but would only receive blank stares from the stupid townspeople. They are probably still out there… The Race founders, attempting to traverse Nantucket Sound with its infamous fog and shoals, felt great kinship with these unhappy souls. The official race emblem for many years sported an Indian looking through a spyglass backwards.