On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 3:41 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> > We and other species could no doubt adapt to the much warmer climate of > the Carboniferous era - but not in a few hundred years. > When things got super hot life adapted, and we're far more intelligent than anything that lived during the Carboniferous and the specialty of intelligence is being good at adapting quickly to changing environmental conditions. > > > > Did that revelation come to you in a dream? You know why the Earth >> was super cold 450 million years ago and super hot 360 million years ago >> and everything in-between since? >> >> > No it came to me reading about the Milankovich cycles. > > Please explain how ether the 21,000 or 26,000 or 41,000 year Milankovitch cycle can explain why the Earth was colder than it's ever been 450 million years ago and hotter than any time in the last two billion years 360 million years ago. > >> No person who doesn't make his living feeding environmental panic says >> the global temperature is going to rise 4.5degK anytime soon, >> >> > It's the 95% upper confidence bound of the IPCC projection for 2100. > Bureaucratic agencies have a survival instinct, if people thought there was no need to be in a environmental panic there would be no reason for a agency like the IPCC to exist, and I don't give a damn if they're confident I only care if they're correct and predictions about what things will be like in 85 years almost never are. For heavens sake that's like demanding that the Wright Brothers find a solution to airport congestion; if in 85 years global warming turns out to be a real problem our toolkit for fixing things will be VASTLY larger and more powerful than it is now, and in the meantime there are plenty of more important problems that need fixing right now. > > Bullshit. You're just making up straw man "environmentalist". One of > my close friends is president of the Sierra Club and he's *for* nuclear > power. > We've been down this road before. I don't know who your mystery friend is but I do know that the Sierra Club official website says: "The Sierra Club remains unequivocally opposed to nuclear energy." > And even those who are against it only hold that opinion because they > think solar and wind can replace oil. > Then they are fools. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
