On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 19:45:29 GMT, the renowned mzenier@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Mark
Zenier) wrote:
>In article <l6Wd****41LtTeEPcRVn-rQ@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>Chuck Harris <cf-NO-SPAM-harris@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>Mark Jones wrote:
>>> What doesn't make sense is the last few thousand years of the graph.
It
>>> clearly should have started going into a colder period, but instead
the
>>> global temperature has stayed almost constant. So what we perceive as
>>> being "no change" in global warming might actually be a "big deal."
>>>
>>> Disclaimer: I'm no climatologist. :)
>>
>>If you are going to blame humans, that glitch better have started in the
>>last 100-200 years. 800 years ago, humans were insignificant producers
of
>>greenhouse g*****.
>
>No. The deviation from the expected trends started with large scale
>rice cultivation in Asia about 4-6000 years ago. Rice paddies are good
>sources of methane and CO2.
>
>>We still are, but we are making much more now than we
>>were prior to the industrial revolution. The active volcanoes are
making
>>way more than we ever could.
>
>Mt. St. Helens produces only as much S02 as the local coal fired
>power plant did before they installed latest set of scrubbers.
>(Western Wa****ngton coal is pretty nasty stuff, though).
>
>Mark Zenier mzenier@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wa****ngton State resident
On the plus side, the Arctic is probably going to become fully
navigable year-round in the next century or two, eventually removing
the need to rely on those big nuclear-powered Russian icebreakers to
get ****pping through. Bypassing the Panama Canal will link Europe to
Asia much more closely (40% less distance). Assuming the latter isn't
washed into the sea, that is.
Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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