The last Ice Age ended despite the fact that SUVs and the internal combustion engine were 8000 years in the future. What the hell ask Al Gore, I am sure he can explain it and also ask him why the polar ice caps on Mars are melting. I did not realize that Exxon was hard at work on Mars destroying the planet.
Yep, and scientists have even found a warming climate on Triton, which is one of Neptune’s moons. Somebody should wake Al Gore and warn him.
http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/19980526052143data_trunc_sys.shtml
I recently saw some show on the Discovery channel about the melting of the last ice age. Some scientist had concocted a theory that great amounts of CO2 had melted the immense ice sheets. Of course they were trying to imply what would happen now because of increased CO2.
What was neglected curiously enough was how the two mile high ice sheets were created in the first place. My college courses had taught us the Milankovich theory of "tilt, wobble, and stretch" whereby the sun was responsible for the heating and cooling of the earth depending on our variations in our orbit. Apparently to these scientists the sun has had a neglible affect on our climate. I suppose cavemen getting rid of their SUVs and lowering the CO2 created the ice ages. (smirk)
While it is probable that humans are not the only reason the earth is warming up right now, it is probably in our best interest not to make the current warming trend any worse, or happen any faster. It’s unfortunate that somehow conservatives have decided that environmentalism is a radical leftist cause we should resist at all costs. It SHOULD be a conservative cause because the financial and social repercussions of doing nothing are going to be horrendous. You think there’s an immigration problem now? Just wait until the whole of Mexico desertifies and/or submerges.