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To: Schwaeky
If ice ages are blamed on the earth's tilt, than by definition any global warming can only be traced to the same...

Sorry, you have an invalid conclusion there.

First, while the general cycle of ice ages can be correlated with the Earth's tilt, it's hardly the only factor, nor does this article claim it is.

Second, you have overlooked the fact that any analysis of factors affecting conditions in the Earth's past can not necessarily be extrapolated to post-industrial periods, because there are new factors at work -- namely, the works of man.

For one example, studies of factors affecting the flow of the Colorado River over the past hundred thousand years would hardly "disprove" that it's possible to reduce it to a trickle of its former volume by building concrete dams, as has been done in past decades. And yet, your same line of "reasoning" could be employed to (fallaciously) argue such a case.

which means that short of figuing out a way to change the earth's tilt one way or another, there's not much we can do about it either way!!!

Wrong, since again, we are capable of engineering solutions which are unlike any of the natural factors which had previously affected climate before man came along.

Which means the liberal moonbats are full of it!!!

They may be, but you haven't managed to prove it by your faulty line of reasoning.

63 posted on 04/30/2006 10:08:38 PM PDT by Ichneumon (Ignorance is curable, but the afflicted has to want to be cured.)
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To: Ichneumon
Wrong, since again, we are capable of engineering solutions which are unlike any of the natural factors which had previously affected climate before man came along.

Such as?

While ignorance may be curable, your arrogance and condescension is not.

69 posted on 05/01/2006 4:22:27 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
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