Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/17/2008 2:16:37 PM PST by decimon
Consider yourself lucky. It could be much, much colder outside -- like ice age cold.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have used powerful computer climate models to show that, were it not for a rise in global temperatures that started thousands of years ago with the first clearing of European forests, we would be entering another ice age. Glaciers would be growing instead of melting. Your back would be even more sore from shoveling.
(Excerpt) Read more at madison.com ...
Hug a tree ping
Got to be more to this.
The PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF MADISON cannot not wander off the DemoRAT reservation.
OK - so what caused the previous ice ages and what was the cause of them melting???
The last one was around 25,000 years ago ... what caused that one to melt?
The last one was around 25,000 years ago ... what caused that one to melt?
Mastodon flatulence.
The frist SUV. Granted, it was made of sticks, twine, and leaves...
I used powerful computer models to show that aliens can be defeated with hand-held mini-guns.
Figures .....
And powered by Mastodon flatulence.
What a load of bovine excrement.
probably solar cycles that were uncharted then- or maybe they were charted
the mayans and egyptians were actually pretty sophisticated at the physical science
Mastodon excrement.
The reason for my reply is these lib’s are saying it’s our fault for global warming - if so, what caused the last few ice ages to end?
some scientists in Arizona (Institute of CO2 Studies?) published some studies years ago showing that the earth would benefit by increasing CO2 because it would allow food production ot stay steady or increase (especially with population growth) as more traditional areas (Russia China Canada and US) lost production due to cooling
some scientists in Arizona (Institute of CO2 Studies?) published some studies years ago showing that the earth would benefit by increasing CO2 because it would allow food production ot stay steady or increase (especially with population growth) as more traditional areas (Russia China Canada and US) lost production due to cooling
“He linked increases in atmospheric methane and carbon dioxide in the ice cores to a time about 5,000 years ago when humans commenced large-scale rice farming in Asia and extensive deforestation of European forests.”
Models, smodels. They’ll tell you anything you want to hear as long a you plug in the right assumptions. But I’ve heard it said often that one large volcanic eruption can put more CO2 into the air, and other matter than years of man’s activities. And, what did these folks assume about the sun, and changes in sun activity and sunspot activity?
There was a clan of cavemen--the Al Gorestone tribe blowing a lot of hot air.
If we’re cooling without industrialization, is that not confirmation that we’re cooling (with industrial pollution output declining)?
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