Hi Keith,
And the cause of this 'natural warming' of 1000 years ago could have
been massive droughts causing massive forest fires (a lot more
forests back then) greatly increasing the greenhouse gases. And now
we choose to put massive amounts of greenhouse gases into the
atmosphere. So then it was an act of god and now it is an act of
humans.
About your waiting to get some response to your IQ postings; my
question to you is why I have not read a word from you re 'Mud, Brawn
and Brain' or 'Learning'? I have no interest what so ever with
Intelligence Quotients. I'm only interested in signs of intelligent
behaviour. My point in posting the 2 above mentioned topics was to
SHOW signs of highly intelligent behaviour.
I also found your recent rant about the 'whole language'approach to
reading highly paradoxical. It came shortly after you and Harry raved
about some very treasured pulp fiction you both read as youths. Whole
language advocates would have made use of your enthusiastic response
to these materials to take you more deeply into reading. For example
they may have asked you to critically examine who the heroes were and
who the villains were. Was there any propaganda lurking in those
texts? There certainly was in the Superman and Batman comics I
devoured in the 1950s.
Take care,
Brian McAndrews
>Now on my third pot of tea of the day, with a dogwalk and breakfast behind
>me, I have come across the following news item in today's Daily Telegraph.
>Before I quote this, I'll mention that today's breakfast brought a long
>series of experiments to a satisfactory end. This was to find the best
>recipe for a medium-soft goose egg -- that is, one into which you can dip
>slices of bread or toast ("soldiers" over here):
>
>Place egg in cold water, bring to boil, time for 7 minutes, choose a very
>large spoon with which to extract the egg (one or two experiments failed in
>previous days because of spoons that were too small causing subsequent hand
>tremors and splattering of eggs on the kitchen floor -- of advantage only
>to my dog).
>
>Keith Hudson
>
>Now to the DT:
>
><<<<
>Earlier global warm-up seen in tree rings
>
>Roger Highfield
>
>A tree ring study has revealed that 1,000 years ago the Northern Hemisphere
>may have been as warm as today, suggesting that global warming can happen
>naturally.
>
>The study shows that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which
>has been focussing on the effects of burning fossil fuels, has probably
>underestimated the extent of global warming free of human influence.
>
>The IPCC executive summary found that conditions during the 20th century
>were warmer than at any other time since 1000AD.
>
>However, the new work, combined with other studies, suggests that the
>"Medieval Warm Period" 1,000 years ago may have been just as warm as recent
>decades in the Northern Hemisphere.
>
>The latest findings are p[ubliushed today in "Science" by Dr Jan Esper and
>Fritz Schweingruber, of the Swiss Federal Institute in Birmensdorf, and Dr
>Edward Cook, of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York.
>
>Trees grow an additional layer of wood every years, forming annual rings
>whose width varies, depending on environmental conditions. ~Scientists can
>use these overlapping annual ring-width series to piece together
>year-to-year climate changes based on three ring thickness. It is tricky
>for older trees because age also makes rings become increasingly narrow.
>
>Prof Keith Briffa at the Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia,
>said: "The idea that medieval warmth was restricted to Europe is looking
>far less likely."
>>>>>
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>ìWriters used to write because they had something to say; now they write in
>order to discover if they have something to say.î John D. Barrow
>_________________________________________________
>Keith Hudson, Bath, England; e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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