[Cobra64]

Now I remember why I cancelled my subscription to this magazine 10 years ago. These people just like to write 60 pages of fluff when three paragraphs would have sufficed.

[The Great RJ]

Fact, the earth's climate has shifted radically in relatively recent geologic times without any significant input from humans. Case in point, the several "Ice Ages" where large portions of the planet were covered with glaciers that subsequently melted. This huge planetary change in climate cannot be attributed to the puny contributions of the few humans there at the time. In Roman times and up until about the 13th century England was a major exporter of wine. The current climate in the UK would not support than kind of viticulture...what caused that shift? The explosion of the Tambora volcano in the 1816 coming at a time of solar minimum caused significant global climate change causing 1816 to be called the year without a summer. Note that the earths population survived this disaster. Look at the 4 years of WW-II with cities burning world wide and two atomic bomb explosions...no climate change from that.Climate change happens all the time with or without human intervention.

[Mike Darancette]

Al Gore is hitting the road with his animated computer slide show

That's the only thing animated about Albore.

[SkyDancer]

Whew! A lot of stuff to dig through ... my question remains at to my tag-line ... what caused the ice age and what ended it? According to what I was taught it ended pretty fast ...