| From: | David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: [OT] Life Sucks |
| Date: | Tue, 2 Feb 1999 07:39:05 -0700 |
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/ Patrick Goodman writes:
/ > I don't, Jammer. I've arrived at this conclusion with the only evidence
/ > that I care to bring into this silly argument: My own observations.
/ > Things just haven't been acting the same, weather-wise, over the past
/ > several years. They've gotten weird. Things seem to be running a lot
/ > hotter than they used to.
/ >
/ > It could just be me. I never said I had a perfect memory. But I do
/ > have a pretty good recall, and I don't recall the weather patterns in
/ > this locality being quite this screwed up. And when you're talking
/ > about weather in the Texas Panhandle being screwed up, you're making a
/ > bold statement.
/
/ OTH, Pat... wierd weather happens. There have been lots of other wierd
/ weather cycles in the past, that humans had no part in causing. Take most of
/ the 12th century, for example (average temperatures were 5 degrees below
/ what they were in the 11th and 13th... it just got cold all of a sudden. In
/ Europe, the Black Forest shrunk to less than the size it is today, due to
/ all the people cutting wood for fires)
Yep. The Sahara Desert used to be a verdant area lush with life up
until about 5,000 years ago. That's a pretty quick change in geologic
time. 50,000 years ago we were coming out of the ice age. It could be
said that the earth has been on a warming trend for 75,000 years and
that while the industrial age might be increasing the pace there may be
no way to stop it until it hits it's peak.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't take precautions, but I find it
amusing that mankind is so conceited that we think that a couple
hundred years of our industrial age is the cause of something that
started thousands of years ago :)
-David B.
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