Quoting Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Platt] > > How come the world was hotter during the Middle Ages? > > [SA] > Where did you source this from? I've been hearing that the hottest years on > record have been within the last 10-15 years. I'm open to the actual facts, > so, if you have a more accurate source I'd like to see for myself, thanks. > > [Case] > The period of warming Platt refers to was followed by the Little Ice Age in > Europe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period > > The vital point Platt misses is that climate is a chaotic system. > Disturbances in the system can have far reaching, unpredictable and long > lasting effects.
Yes. I hope you focused like a laser on UNPREDICTABLE. > Since what we are talking about, climate, is basic to all > life on the planet it would seem that knowingly mucking about it would be > regarded as a bad thing. "Mucking about" could turn out to be a good thing. Remember, unpredictable. > But the arguments Platt makes for shrugging this off are political not > scientific. There are scientists who disagree with Al Gore, the consummate seedy politician. > They are the same kind of arguments that led his hero Ronald > Raygun to decry the influence of government living outside of its means > while at the same time inflicting more debt on our grandchildren than all of > his predecessors combined. Not to mention bringing down Soviet communism, allowing millions of children in Eastern Europe and elsewhere to survive and live in freedom. > It is this "me first", screw the kids attitude > that led us to replace a nuclear physicist with a "B" movie actor in the > first place. It is a culture of political distortion that makes people vote > for an AWOL coke head over war heroes in both parties. Jimmy Carter, the worst president in U.S. history. Inflation rates at double digits, interest rates likewise. Completely feckless in the Iranian hostage crises. The leader of national "malaise." > Since the American people have knowingly voted in this way for the past 20 > years it is hard to work up much shock that things are heading the way they > are. Yes indeed, Americans are stupid, except for the small minority of wise people like yourself of course. > Until we vote for elections reform. Until we remove the media from the > hands of a few. Until we reduce the influence of multi-national corporate > manipulation of public policy. Ah, let us pray that we too, like our European cousins, will soon bask in the bosom of socialism. Just hope that you won't need an operation. By the time you get to the head of the line it may be too late. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
