On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:31:12 -0500, hpeer wrote:

Hummm.....................

I've been following this topic on another site where the debate has been
raging for a couple of months.

From what I can tell the vast majority of the scientific community
firmly supports antrhropogenic warming and, if anything, the rate of
warming is significantly faster than simulations predict.

Of course there are a few nay sayers.

I would recommend the following link to someone who was truly interested
in the topic. Pretty good debate going on there.

http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic44493-0-asc-0.html

I don't pay too much attention to it except to have both summer and
winter clothes, which should cover me.
But I saw something on a science program that said the man-made
atmospheric pollution has either kept us from an ice-age or from
melting - can't remember which. Point is, it was counter-intuitive
and just showed me how little we really know.
Sort of like shivering is to warm you up. Body temp mechanism
feedbacks are complex, but global stuff is in another dimension.
Long time ago I read that we could melt the ice caps by dumping
cargo plane loads of coal dust on them.
I recall the oceans absorb solar heat, so to cool the earth we could
dump plane loads of a floating reflective material onto the oceans.
Maybe Christmas tree foil or that glitter stuff kids use with Elmer's
glue. Best left to Dow Laboratories to come up with something,
I suppose. Or maybe 3M or Dunkin Donuts.
Something that won't clog boat cooling systems.
Could get disastrous results, but that's why we tweak such projects.
Yep, have to tweak a project like that sucker. Everybody should
probably be issued an umbrella and a fan. And some canned food.
Glad we got the mad scientists looking out for us, but if they fail
the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers can take over.

--Vic