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To: decimon

I think the science shows that climate is much more affected by regional events than the entire Earth ecosystem.

And sea levels rise and fall naturally depending on the Arctic ice, and the cycles fluctuate over thousands of years regardless of man’s existence.

I really saw nothing in the report that portrayed man’s involvement in climate change.


11 posted on 01/10/2010 10:55:51 AM PST by o_zarkman44 (Obama is the ultimate LIE!)
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To: o_zarkman44
I really saw nothing in the report that portrayed man’s involvement in climate change.

That's right. All natural phenomena. I like it.

12 posted on 01/10/2010 11:00:18 AM PST by decimon
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To: o_zarkman44
I really saw nothing in the report that portrayed man’s involvement in climate change.

Apparently only in *this* climate change.

The pattern was finally broken about 34,000 years ago, the point in Earth's 95,000-year orbital cycle at which the planet was so far from the Sun at certain times of year that the ice sheets continued to grow even when the Bering Strait closed. When the orbital cycle brought Earth closer to the Sun in the northern winter, the ice sheets retreated sufficiently about 10,000 years ago to reopen the strait. This helped lead to a relatively stable climate, nurturing the rise of civilization.

Implying that this warming cycle is somehow different than the previous several, where mankind was barely around. The last "peak" in temperatures, when it got warmer than it is now, was about 125,000 years ago, the ones before that which were about 240,000, about 330,000 and 410,000 years ago respectively.

After the peak, comes the ice age, and we are overdue.

25 posted on 01/10/2010 7:34:25 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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