On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 01:21:43 -0400 (EDT), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, anarkisseD wrote: >> But i'm not going to try and prove or continue to argue this, >> i'm actually not that foolish. > Huh? What was that you just did? <shrug> > Baseless assertions are easy enough to make... And it's wise > to abandon such assertions... though usually one doesn't > make them and abandon them in the same breath. Interesting > debating style. ;-) Who knows about the weather? <g> The developed world is burning through oil and coal at an alarming rate to little constructive purpose. Of course we're zipping over the landscape in our over- powered vehicles and having a great time in the process! Zooming around is great fun and I like to do it myself. I don't know how much fossil fuel we have left, but we sure do burn a lot of it. That might even be a good thing. I don't know. How much do we have at the current burn rate? A hundred years? A thousand? I do know that the spot where I am sitting about four miles inland from the western shore of Lake Huron has been covered with glacier ice over a mile thick at least ten times and lots of the time when it wasn't, it was covered by the lake. It's a natural cycle and we've been in the growing warmer phase for close to ten thousand years. It's also quite possible that human activities are accelerating the cycle. According to news reports, it was uncommonly warm this year in Anartica, with summer temperatures over 32 degress Farenheit, resulting in widespread melting. Is that the result of our profligate lifestyle? Maybe, maybe not. It would be prudent to consider the possibility. Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
