In 30 years we'll hear the same thing...I don't recall anything about a global warming crisis. http://www.denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm http://scottthong.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/newsweek1975globalcooling.JPG
The newsweek article. The really funny part is the graph...look at the GLOBAL WARMING CRISIS taking place from 1880 to 1930's. I can't believe we made it. whew. Mike On Jan 11, 2008 5:23 PM, Steve Rigby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 11, 2008, at 3:30 PM, mike wrote: > > > argument. She likes the word crisis...said the same in newsweek in the > > seventies when global cooling was the 'crisis'. > > I think the word crisis was as applicable in the seventies as it is > today. In the Big Picture, we do not have a lot of time to fart > around. Thirty years is nothing in the Big Picture. > > I do not recall talk of a global cooling "crisis" back then. Nothing > whatsoever on the scale of the warming trend that actually has been > chronicled since at least the early 1900's. There was a very brief > period in the '70's when temps overall dipped a bit, but that lasted > but a short time and then it was back to generally climbing temps once > again. The cooling debate never went beyond but a few advocates of a > school of thought that temps were going to be in decline for an > extended period of time. > > It is likely true that about 1/3 of the available resources initially > presumed to be available as industrialization dawned are gone, at least > temporarily. Not just trees, but all of those resources. That's one > reason why there is talk of mining on other planets. Sometimes, new > repositories of certain resources are discovered on earth, thus the > numbers are always in flux to one degree or another. > > There is some tree replanting that provides for the continuation of > the ability to harvest from those particular areas, but not nearly > enough to offset the overall loss of timber worldwide. The United > States has most certainly lost a huge hunk of its woodlands. > > Steve > > > ************************************************************************ > * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== > * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== > * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name > * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST > * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L > * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress > * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ************************************************************************ > * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC > http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l > * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ > * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml > * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived > ************************************************************************ > ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
