Gilligan wrote:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15391426/site/newsweek



Now, also at that time, the SST contrails were supposed to plunge us
into an ice age, which is one of the reasons why Boeing dropped them
and only a pitiful handful of COncordes got built (and if you believe
that I have a nice bridge for sale here).

I recall cruelly setting my systems ecology students a tutorial topic
requiring them to reconcile the imminent ice age, the rising CO2 levels,
the looming nuclear winter, and the role of vulcanism and foraminifera
in biogeochemical homeostasis (about 1979).

The tutorial sessions were great fun. The general student conclusion was
that global climate prediction was not a happy lot, and that the
scientific prophets were all at sea (==mandatory sailing content). But
of course we have lotsa big computers now, so that's all right, and the
predictions must therefore be much more reliable and accurate. GIGO.

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