[pct-l] Climate Change Indicators

[Bighummel@aol.com (Bighummel@aol.com)]

Okay,

Here's the best, well documented, scientific article that I have found 
outlining the perspective on global warming from a geologist's longer point 
of view.

Check out: http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/news/story0_1.html
"Scientist Refutes Notion of Recent Climate as "Uniquely Benign" - 
Sees Evidence of Approaching Ice Age Despite Global Warming 
by Kurt Sternloff"

It basically outlines the record of pollen and ice cores over the past few 
hundred thousand years and puts our temperature record in that context.  
Simply put, there isn't too much evidence that current global warming (real) 
is out of the pattern of the global warming and cooling cycles caused 
(supposedly) by the variation in earth's orbit and that causes periodic ice 
ages.

THIS IS NOT TO SAY THAT WHAT WE (HUMANS) ARE DOING IS OKAY AND THAT WE DON'T 
HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT PUTTING TONS OF POLUTION INTO THE AIR, EARTH AND OCEANS!  


I believe that we have been ignorant, short-sited and total jerks in our 
handling of earth's resources so far.  I pray that we wise up quickly before 
we screw it totally up forever.  However, one of the benefits of a 
geologist's view point of time is that with one or two million years left to 
itself, the earth is amazing at healing just about any scar that it puts on 
itself or we may put upon it.

Greg "Strider" Hummel
(who is now working for an oil and gas company looking for natural gas in 
California)
(so am I biased one way or the other?)
(crucify me if you wish)

"Salvitur Ambulando"
(walking (and time) solves all things)
            St. Augustine






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