basskisser wrote:
RCE wrote:

"basskisser" wrote in message
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You do realize, don't you, Bill, that the warming is happening at a
pace that hasn't happened before?

How do we possible know that for a fact?


Ice borings.


Those ice borings show atmospheric CO2 content. They us NOTHING at all
about temperature.


Smoking used to be considered good for you and was recommended to calm the
nerves.


I don't get the parallels there....but, when I smoked, it did seem to
calm my nerves. So perhaps there is data out there somewhere that shows
that!!

There is. At least one study has shown nicotine to have anti-psycotic
effects. It has been observed for a long time that many mentally ill
people chain-smoke. This study showed that it is a form of self-medication.

However, you won't find this study quoted or touted very much. We
aren't supposed to find anything GOOD about tobacco. You will find that
most studies of climatology similarly vanish if they do not tow the
global warming line.

Black Dog wrote:
basskisser wrote:
RCE wrote:

"basskisser" wrote in message
groups.com...


You do realize, don't you, Bill, that the warming is happening at a
pace that hasn't happened before?

How do we possible know that for a fact?


Ice borings.


Those ice borings show atmospheric CO2 content. They us NOTHING at all
about temperature.

Nope, ice borings show freeze/thaw cycles. See:
http://www.teachersdomain.org/9-12/s...and/index.html

basskisser wrote:
Black Dog wrote:

basskisser wrote:

RCE wrote:


"basskisser" wrote in message
legroups.com...


You do realize, don't you, Bill, that the warming is happening at a
pace that hasn't happened before?

How do we possible know that for a fact?


Ice borings.


Those ice borings show atmospheric CO2 content. They us NOTHING at all
about temperature.


Nope, ice borings show freeze/thaw cycles. See:
http://www.teachersdomain.org/9-12/s...and/index.html



Didn't see that there. Only this
"For example, scientists can determine temperature by analyzing the
ratio of different forms, or isotopes, of oxygen atoms in the core."

I wasn't aware that O isotopes were that temperature sensitive, to
detect changes in fractions of degrees. So I take back my NOTHING. But
I'd like to see data and methods. I've done a bit of work with fluid
inclusions in minerals - and ice is a mineral - but that work has a
pretty hefty margin of error.