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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Disaster (New Ice Age) averted |
| 2005-02-10 |
| Human activities may have averted the next ice age. This conclusion from recent research is sure to make global warming alarmists cringe. Ongoing human activities during the past 8,000 years likely have served to prevent us from falling into an ice age, says William Ruddiman, former chairman of the University of Virginia environmental sciences department and his research team in Quaternary Research Reviews.. "Without any anthropogenic warming," they write, "earth's climate would no longer be in a full-interglacial state [warm period] but be well on its way toward the colder temperatures typical of glaciations." The article has a couple of interesting graphs that show how CO2 and methane levels diverged from long term trends 8,000 and 5,000 years ago respectively, which seems to correspond with the advent of agriculture and then animal husbandry. |
| Posted by:phil_b |
| #15 It appears to me from looking at that map and chart that, if we cut back on global warming, a lot of those blue states will get covered in glaciers. It just might be worth it. |
| Posted by: Tom 2005-02-10 9:11:56 PM |
| #14 Vegetarians have to eat fewer beans a source of protein, and give up their ways. They are causing global warming by their diet! Good luck talking to them, BigEd. They think their sh*t doesn't stink. |
| Posted by: BH 2005-02-10 8:54:04 PM |
| #13 Sobiesky - Re: Vegans... Require them to take Beano as a Federally Mandated Daily Supplement. Secret Rove Memo: Once we've got them eating Beano, we buy GSK via a front company and we begin adding Soma to the formula. Gradually, we ween them from CNN with the VR Moron News (indistinguishable from the original) and then give then a taste of wireheading. It won't be long until they're begging for a permanent connection... soon they're meat puppets who don't reproduce. Viola! |
| Posted by: .com 2005-02-10 7:55:08 PM |
| #12 I can't recommend Fallen Angels. It struck me as pretty sloppy and self-indulgent and larded with "in-references". They had too much fun writing it--they've done much better. Nice description of the Greens, though. |
| Posted by: James 2005-02-10 7:50:19 PM |
| #11 LOL, BE, you've invoked this image of spotted vegetarian slowly crushing the greenery between teeth all day long. Udderly awesome! |
| Posted by: Sobiesky 2005-02-10 7:48:24 PM |
| #10 CF... Remember Pres. Reagan once said Cows were causing some of the global warming. The lefty elites laughed. But, he turned out to be right... So, I propose this. Vegetarians have to eat fewer beans a source of protein, and give up their ways. They are causing global warming by their diet! Am I right? |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-02-10 7:40:40 PM |
| #9 This reminds me of one Larry Niven's novels that is online in a downloadable form--Fallen Angels. Situated in near future, sci environuts get blamed for causing an ice age and unfortunately, public opinion has turned violently against scientists and science in all forms as a consequence. |
| Posted by: Sobiesky 2005-02-10 7:24:30 PM |
| #8 This has got to be wrong. No changes occurred until Bush assumed control of the world's climate in January 2001. It's been all downhill since then. |
| Posted by: Matt 2005-02-10 7:22:53 PM |
| #7 human activity? I think all those belching, farting cows may have something to do with it too..... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-02-10 7:19:47 PM |
| #6 Lol, SDB -- This sums it up, IMHO. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-02-10 7:12:08 PM |
| #5 Touche, Frank G! |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-02-10 7:06:13 PM |
| #4 Global Warming...Global Cooling Someone has to make up their mind hey! as long as it brings in grants, media attention, and loonies worshipping your tome-o-the-week, who cares, right? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-02-10 7:05:43 PM |
| #3 Their minds are long since made up: "Humans bad". |
| Posted by: Steven Den Beste 2005-02-10 7:05:08 PM |
| #2 Global Warming...Global Cooling Someone has to make up their mind |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-02-10 7:01:01 PM |
| #1 "animal husbandry" Hold on now. People in Arkansas take their weddings serious. |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2005-02-10 6:47:55 PM |
