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To: gondramB

Either way tit points to global warming as a real problem

All it points to is that temperature varies and we are at the upper end of a 100kyr cycle, not that global "warming" is a "real problem".

In geological history, the global ice box brought on by astrophysical effects represents much more of a problem for future civilizaton to deal with and will be of much greater concern over the next few centuries:

 

Figure 1-4 Climate of the last 100,000 years

Figure 1-5 Climate for the last 420 kyr, from Vostok ice

 

Global warming against that past and future potential is of little concequence and in fact has a boon to the earth's ecology and mankind, not a detriment:

At least these folks seem believe so:

Petition Project: http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p357.htm

During the past 2 years, more than 17,100 basic and applied American scientists, two-thirds with advanced degrees, have signed the Global Warming Petition.

Specifically declaring:

"There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate."

Signers of this petition so far include 2,660 physicists, geophysicists, climatologists, meteorologists, oceanographers, and environmental scientists (select this link for a listing of these individuals) who are especially well qualified to evaluate the effects of carbon dioxide on the Earth's atmosphere and climate.

Signers of this petition also include 5,017 scientists whose fields of specialization in chemistry, biochemistry, biology, and other life sciences (select this link for a listing of these individuals) make them especially well qualified to evaluate the effects of carbon dioxide upon the Earth's plant and animal life.

Nearly all of the initial 17,100 scientist signers have technical training suitable for the evaluation of the relevant research data, and many are trained in related fields.


62 posted on 07/23/2006 12:49:08 PM PDT by ancient_geezer (Don't reform it, Replace it.)
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To: ancient_geezer
You might want to check out post 14 in this thread.

An Inconvenient Movie (An Inconvenient Pack of Lies--Niman Style!)

I know ancient geezers have memory problems, so I'll keep reminding you that the OISM petition was based on a hoax and had pretty poor screening procedures.

131 posted on 07/25/2006 1:53:22 PM PDT by cogitator
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