Posted on 10/11/2006 11:43:56 PM PDT by MadIvan
"He made a mistake by giving a specific timetable"
Exactly! This global warming stuff that Gore is talking about is kind of like saying that we are in global warming because July is warmer than January to it's getting warmer on earth. The earth has seasons, just as our solar system and the galaxy has seasons. No need to cry out that the sky is falling!
This sounds like a croc. The only wobble I am aware of is what they call the "precession of the equinoxes" which the earth goes though about every 26 thousand years. The axis wobbles like a top that has slowed down.
Well sure. It gets a little colder we make more muskrat coats, beaver hats and bunny slippers. Of course the rodent populations are going to be affected.
Thanks for the heads up! I'm after buying up some beachfront property in the Himalayas!
can we panic now?
"If the Earth wants to lose humanity, all it has to do is fart". A saying I read somewhere, although I can't remember once.
One of the reasons I don't buy into global warming is simply that the Earth does a lot more by itself than we could manage in millenia of oil-burning.
And, hell, if we're all going to die due to the wobble anyway, why do we care about global warming in any case?!
BUMP
Bush Did it.
love.
This time around we'll have jackets to wear.
"So if I start my Alaskan seal farm now, I'll have enough pelts to make a killing?"
Doogle
Do as you like, but I am not going to drink the Kool Aide tomorrow.
7:07am...first laff-o-the-day .... I's thanks you
There was a science fiction story ("Fallen Angels", by Niven & Pournelle), what posited that we were overdue for an Ice Age, and the only thing holding it off had been global warming. So when the enviro-weenies finally won ...
I just got off the phone with Al Gore.
He said the is also a man made problem due to gravitational pull of water spinning in toilets in the northern hemisphere.
His said Global "Turd Spin Cooling" is our next, most critical problem to resolve. He wants everyone to lighten their load, or shall we say our "Turd flush footprint".
Well, that settles it. We need to outlaw hybrids and require everyone drive a Suburban to get enough CO2 in the atmosphere to prevent this from happening.
I don't keep up technically the way I used to when I worked professionally, but as far as I knew that theory of pole reversal has never been refuted.
I find it curious that no one in the pop science world has ever written extensively about it. It seems odd to me that something which has the potential to wreak all sorts of havoc on civiization is simply ignored; maybe it's because one can't blame anyone for the situation.
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