Posted on 03/10/2005 8:19:28 AM PST by Squawk 8888
Weekly global warning alert....
Immanuel Velikovsky, "Earth in Upheaval" (1956) or
http://knowledge.co.uk/velikovsky/
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The Romans should be blamed for that 80B.C. global warming!! Those imperialists and their SUV sized chariots.
Isn't this Bush's fault?
At the very least the Romans should be held accountable for the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. That must've bumped global temperatures up by at least a thousandth of a degree.
They have made up for it in modern times by mass-producing cars that don't run. FIAT = Fix It Again, Tony.
bttt - almost-forgotten footnotes regarding Velikovsky:
In the '50's & '60's, Velikovsky was derisively written off as a charlatan by the scientific community. Non other than Carl Sagan made it his business to drum him out of the self-anointed community of "knowers" that human science too often becomes. Velikovsky's thoughts about catastrophic upheavals on the earth - whether terrestrial or extra in origin - were assigned to the bookshelves next to the "...egyptians in their flying craft..." tomes. Back then, "Science" scoffed at the earth having had anything outside of a benign evolution.
Now, of course, we have this neat meme that expresses when the shit hits the fan on a global scale - Catastrophism. Funny... it seems all one's gotta do is put an "ism" on the end of a word, and it becomes legit, eh?
But I digress - we now have this somber-all-the-smart-geeks-solemnly-nod-their-heads accepted scientific "fact" called Catastrophism - yet the father of the discipline - Velikovsky - gains no recognition.
It's as if Stalin and his removal of opponents from State portraits were employed against those the self-anointed do not accept.
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The 79AD incident was recorderd in tree rings worldwide as a cooling event.
Well, of course. Ice giants. Global Warming(TM).
I'll bet Earth in the Balance is called a saga in some far off far off.
Why? What's this got to do with a dead parrot?
He's not dead!!
Actually, I was thinking of the Spam sketch...
'e sure is! Jus' look at 'im! ;-)
Oh, OK. :-)
He's just resting.
The global warming movement is a neo-pagan farce based on selective science, fixed computer models, and an anti-capitalist and anti-human freedom political agenda. The warming trend has been going on in fits and starts for about ten thousand years (end of the last in a series of ice ages) and will continue until the cycle (again) reverses itself.
It's stone dead.
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