Spehro Pefhany <speffSNIP@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>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.
I've got a great idea to get rid of extra water: pump it on top of the
Himalaya mountains, it will stay there as ice. Problem solved.
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