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![]() "Capt. JG" wrote in message ... It is not a personal attack. Please show me where I attacked him in the sentence. I think you're ascribing negative connotations to it. I could have easily been referring to his cranium size. The preponderance of evidence suggests and most reputable scientists agree that human beings are the primary cause of global warming. Even Bush said it. All we're asking you to do is provide some references to that "preponderance of evidence." I tend to think you are inclined to accept whatever position happens to agree with your personal brand of political dogma, without reviewing the evidence for and against. In other words, don't confuse you with the facts, your mind is made up. Max |
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The Earth's climate cycles between long periods of ice age
in which the sea level is much lower than it is today, and in which temperatures gradually rise, and much warmer climates. Only 11,000 years ago the sea level was 400 feet lower than it is today. Up until 150 years ago, the Earth was in cold period that lasted three hundred years. Past Ice Ages have nearly covered the Earth with the exception of a narrow band at the Equator. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age Ice Age cycles are cause by a number of factors. CO2, the Earth's changes in axial tilt, precession, and the location of large land masses near the poles. Mankind has little effect on the climate. The Little Ice was caused by a combination of reduced solar activity, and increased volcanic activity. Both of these factors are beyond human control. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age Factors like undersea volcano's have proven dramatic effect on things like melting the Ross Ice Shelf. Volcanic dust in the atmosphere can cause a sudden shift downwards in temperatures--not is a slow single degree per century rate, but very fast drops in temperatures with widespread impact on the climate. One new theory has it that most human kind descended from a small pool of about 1000 people 74,000 years back in time. Analysis of mitochondrial DNA has revealed living humans are strangely homogeneous genetically, presumably because they originated recently from a small group or their ancestors underwent a population bottleneck that wiped out most of mankind. http://www.unl.edu/rhames/neander/neander.htm This is interesting because there was a major eruption of a volcano 75000 years ago that would have had Apocalypse consequences. Both geological and biological evidence support each other. http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/...esia/toba.html It was projected that another ice age should already have started. Many feel that industrialization forestalled the "Little Ice Age". Perhaps it did. It could easily have been an increase in solar flux. The Sun is far more significant than mankind. However one theory is that methane produced by farming, not the burning fossil fuels has delayed the onset of another ice age. The Earth will be either cooling or warming. Given a choice, a slight warming trend is preferable to a fast cooling one. However, there is a theory that slow warming eventually leads to the slowdown of the Global Conveyor which could causes fast cooling--another Ice Age. http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0130-11.htm So it seems that either we should have started a new Ice Age a few hundred years ago, and we have been lucky that global warming has postponed it, or perhaps that the warming trend will lead to a shut down of the Global Conveyor and this will lead to the fast onset of another Ice Age. The bottom line it that it will continue to get warmer, until it gets much colder. We know that Ice Ages occur in just a few short years. During the last ice age, ice covered the area north of a line drawn between Cape May, New Jersey and Seattle Washington. Here is a map showing the typical coverage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:P...th_ice_map.jpg Look at this chart. The next Ice Age has started. Smart people are moving south or west. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:V...core-petit.png |
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Max, instead of trying unsuccessfully to insult me, try typing in "evidence
for global warming" and see what you get. Here's one of 18 million links. Good night and good luck... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...NGE1BECPI1.DTL -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com "Maxprop" wrote in message ink.net... "Capt. JG" wrote in message ... It is not a personal attack. Please show me where I attacked him in the sentence. I think you're ascribing negative connotations to it. I could have easily been referring to his cranium size. The preponderance of evidence suggests and most reputable scientists agree that human beings are the primary cause of global warming. Even Bush said it. All we're asking you to do is provide some references to that "preponderance of evidence." I tend to think you are inclined to accept whatever position happens to agree with your personal brand of political dogma, without reviewing the evidence for and against. In other words, don't confuse you with the facts, your mind is made up. Max |
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![]() "Capt. JG" wrote in message ... Max, instead of trying unsuccessfully to insult me, try typing in "evidence for global warming" and see what you get. Here's one of 18 million links. Good night and good luck... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...NGE1BECPI1.DTL What evidence are you referring to? I see only a report based on talks given at a meeting of the AAAS. I'd love to see the actual papers upon which those talks were based, not just some reporter's interpretation of what he heard. You still haven't provided any references or evidence. Max |
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Nor is it my job to do so. You're a smart guy... look it up yourself. I even
gave you the google string. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com "Maxprop" wrote in message nk.net... "Capt. JG" wrote in message ... Max, instead of trying unsuccessfully to insult me, try typing in "evidence for global warming" and see what you get. Here's one of 18 million links. Good night and good luck... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...NGE1BECPI1.DTL What evidence are you referring to? I see only a report based on talks given at a meeting of the AAAS. I'd love to see the actual papers upon which those talks were based, not just some reporter's interpretation of what he heard. You still haven't provided any references or evidence. Max |
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![]() "Capt. JG" wrote in message ... "Maxprop" wrote in message nk.net... "Capt. JG" wrote in message ... Max, instead of trying unsuccessfully to insult me, try typing in "evidence for global warming" and see what you get. Here's one of 18 million links. Good night and good luck... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...NGE1BECPI1.DTL What evidence are you referring to? I see only a report based on talks given at a meeting of the AAAS. I'd love to see the actual papers upon which those talks were based, not just some reporter's interpretation of what he heard. You still haven't provided any references or evidence. Nor is it my job to do so. You're a smart guy... look it up yourself. I even gave you the google string. It wasn't my job, or that of Lloyd, to provide references for you, either. But we both did so. Why? Because we actually have scientific data to support our side of the argument. Do you? If so, show us. Max |