| From: | Starjammer <starjammer@**********.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: [OT] Life Sucks |
| Date: | Mon, 1 Feb 1999 23:44:18 -0500 |
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>Weather here sucked all weekend, Lehlan. Thanks for asking. <g> (We
>got almost our entire winter's worth of snow in one night, with
>temperatures climbing back into the 60s again today and for much of this
>week. Tell me that things haven't screwed with the climate. Go ahead.)
Okay, things haven't screwed with the climate. :)
Seriously, don't believe everything you read, especially stuff that's put
out by people with agendas. They (and by "they" I mean anyone who
publishes scientifically or academically to forward their private agenda)
fudge their facts way too much, even if they don't intend to. (Look into
the "discovery" of N-Rays, or cold fusion, or any of a dozen other similar
topics if you don't believe me.) They also have the bad habit of requoting
old research, even when it's been superceded or even disproved.
For instance, the industrial age probably has had an impact on the world's
climate. Are the weather events of the last several years proof? No.
Modern meteorology has been around for less than a century, the detailed
study of weather only a few centuries more. The Earth, on the other hand,
has had weather patterns for billions of years. For all we know, every
500,000 years the weather may just go berserk for a few decades. Or,
changing weather and climate may be part of planetary evolution. Or, maybe
we have screwed things up. All I'm saying is don't jump to conclusions.
After all, it's like people who say there's no magic. Just because it
doesn't look that way today, doesn't mean that things always have or always
will be that way... :)
--
Starjammer - starjammer@**********.com - Marietta, GA
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death
that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it
to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn
the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be
nothing. Only I will remain."
-- Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, Frank Herbert, Dune
