Keeping cool on global warming: Some basic truths about global warming

page D7 of the Boston Globe ^ | 12/16/2001 | Jeff Jacoby

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A. This news story. Apparently satellite photos now confirm that the polar ice caps are shrinking and the planet's temperature is increasing. As more carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere, more of the sun's heat is getting trapped. If it keeps up, the global climate change will be enormous.

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Ashland, Missouri

[WxMan2000]

This is the biggest dose of truth about climate change that I've read in a very long time. Jacoby is right
on the mark with this piece.

[Excuse_Me]

So did the Globe finally give Jacoby back his job as a columnist, without all the fanfare they used in disposing of the only conservative voice at the Globe? Or are picking up his column from another syndicate?

[RippleFire]

BUMP for common sense

[rface]

looks like he's back at the Globb

[Coyoteman]

A thousand years ago, the Northern Hemisphere was in the middle of the Medieval Warm Period. Temperatures then were high enough that the Vikings could cultivate Greenland, which today is covered with ice. By 1500, the climate pendulum had swung the other way. The next few centuries were so cold that historians call them the Little Ice Age.

Thirty years as a professional archaeologist--so I can attest that this is true, even in California!

[Ranger]

As an archaeologist, what do you think of that while find of a city 2100 feet deep in the ocean off the west coast of cuba? Wild or what?

[tberry]

Cold snap continues in europe