Posted on 04/18/2007 12:34:40 PM PDT by CedarDave
"Never mind."
cogitator should be on soon telling us that something as old and obscure as this has long since been dismissed as fringe “noise” by the consensus scientists... (1997)
Pollutics!
Carbon from the land plus oxygen from the air makes for a heavier atmosphere.
Yes, I had to hunt for the date on this and thought the same thing. However, his powerpoint presentation is from last fall. There may be some work out there that is still very relevant to the debate even though it is a few years old. Newton's law's of physics still hold except for Einstein's work on relatively, which have little effect in our everyday lives.
This all has a vague sense of destiny about it; today is my birthday and from sheer boredom I have been solving the puzzles in my daily paper for the past several years; today I was stumped for the longest time over the Cryptoquote as the second word had a triple repeating letter at the end.
I became fixated on an “E” only to frustrate myself time and again until I finally gave up and walked away to attend to more mundane tasks.
After feeding the dogs their morning snack I went outside and stood waiting for the warming that has been so direly predicted when the solution just jumped into my mind.
Back inside I went and began scribbling, “Tolerance consists in seeing things with your heart instead of with your eyes,” I was at once reassured that my now 67 year old mind had not permanently wandered and dismayed to realize only minutes later when coming across this thread that I had also discovered the source of all the concern of our modern times.
We have become too complacent and must continually rechallenge ourselves lest we are forced to accept that it is all for naught.
So true, otherwise we’d still be cavemen. Of course in this instance, and others, big brother government has done their best to hold back progress by stifling discussion, leading to innovation, in the name of “consensus.”
You would have to ask the author.
Fair enough.
Happy birthday. Your 61 year old mind is doing better than my 51 year old mind. I never would have figured it out.
Happy birthday. Your 67 year old mind is doing better than my 51 year old mind. I never would have figured it out. There. Corrected. See, I told you so.
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