Global Warming's Real Inconvenient Truth (straight talk)

Washington Post ^ | 07/05/2006 | Robert Samuelson

[3niner]

I was merely pointing out that this phenomenon has been well known (and understood) for centuries. So well known and understood, that any CalTech freshman can deduce the reasons for it, after being prompted to think about it.

I only mentioned CalTech freshmen because I happened to go there, and all who are accepted to attend have some grounding in math and the physical sciences. The same would (presumably) be true of MIT freshmen.

Here is a link to a little bit of information on the subject.

http://research.amnh.org/~tyson/essays/TidalForce.html

I'm afraid my "insulting" reply was due largely to my having difficulty finding your profile, after you referred me to it. When you use "Old Professer" (sic) as a screen name, you make a statement about yourself.

I was also annoyed that you felt qualified to argue about a simple statement of fact, that I pointed out, when you seemed not to be aware of it. Some things are a matter of opinion, the gross orbital dynamics of the Earth-Luna system are not.

[Old Professer]

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1625174.html?menu=news.scienceanddiscovery.space

These guy say they know how old the moon is; based on their numbers, when the moon was formed it was roughly 168,000 miles from earth, right?

BTW, what does 3niner mean?

[KC Burke]

It is wonderful to see you post.

[hobson]

If we don't do something, every human will eventually die.

Nah, the environment isn't the problem. Life is a sexually transmitted disease, everyone will die from it.