I read in sci.electronics.design that bill.sloman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote (in
<1105092913.800173.221300@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>) about 'OT: Wild
Weather', on Fri, 7 Jan 2005:
>Jim would seem to be a few years behind the game. The present state of
>the debate is that it is generally accepted that global warming is real.
Yes. Even the US government accepts it, but continues to oppose the
Kyoto agreement for reasons which DO bear examination. Kyoto is deeply
flawed and it implementation looks like being pretty ineffective for a
number of reasons. It was very much 'the best compromise', for
sufficiently bad values of 'best'. The EU 'carbon trading scheme', if
it's not made economically ineffective by setting permitted levels
(mass/year) of emission too high, may result in a global scheme that US
industry will find acceptable.
>The Greenland and Antarctic ice cores collected in recent years have
>provided a pretty comprehensive and convincing picture of climate
>flucuations over the past few hundred thousand years, and some
>indications of the mechanisms involved.
The cores show some very rapid changes in climate as well as very much
slower ones. These need to be correlated with what is known about the
effects of continental drift. For example, the climate of the north
coast of India, while it was migrating north from near Madagascar, was
very different from what it was when the north coast was not even a
memory, and certainly very different from what it is now.
>The state of the weather in
>Arizona over the last hundred years isn't all that relevant.
It's relevant, perhaps, but not a reliable indicator of any global
trend.
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
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