RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] global warming (was "false charges of sex ual abuse")

["Hargus, Diana" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Didn't we just stave off a mini ice age in the 1800's sometime?  Maunder's
Minimum I believe it was called.  it was the fact that coal was being used
to fuel the new industrial revolution and threw the soot in the air causing
a greenhouse effect that put off the mini ice agefor a few years prior to
that date, the Thames was said to have frozen over completely for the first
time in recorded history.  Maybe someone with les restrictive web access
could investigate further.
My own theory on Global Warming?  The earth is a fairly closed system and
the ozone hole was there before the mass introduction of cfc's, so it would
be like saying we could blow up the planet with nukes, it cannot be done,
but we could make it really uncomfortable...
Diana


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* [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Mike Miller
* Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 1:45 PM
* To: MLUG Off-Topic Discussion
* Subject: Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] global warming (was "false charges of
* sexual abuse")
* 
* 
* On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Vern Green wrote:
* 
* > I think a lot of this depends on what action you want Bush 
* to take. Bush 
* > has said he is interested in environmental causes, but what 
* do he need 
* > to do to convince you of this?
* 
* Take action to reduce petroleum consumption.  I have no 
* opinion on Kyoto. 
* I don't want to take drastic action.  I would like to see some honest 
* consideration of the problem and a reasonable long-term plan.
* 
* 
* > Your statement about Global Warming being a fact is still not fact. 
* > Computer models have been saying it is, but I still 
* maintain that we do 
* > not have enough information to know whether it is being 
* caused by what 
* > people are doing, the expansion of space flight, or the 
* decline in the 
* > number of pirates in the world. All can be shown to have a 
* correlation 
* > with global warming.
* 
* That is not what the top experts are saying.  They do not 
* have nothing but 
* trends in temperature with time.  They have many other forms 
* of data like 
* CO2 and ozone in the upper atmosphere, and much more.  This is not my 
* area, as you know, but I don't hear any dissenting scientific 
* voices at 
* this point.  Bush's own men believe that recent trends in 
* global warming 
* are being caused largely by greenhouse gases which are being 
* created by 
* human activity.
* 
* Mike
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