graywolf wrote: > Also record cold temperatures, floods, and rather strange weather over all. > But the strangest thing of all is that we really have no idea of what normal > weather is supposed to be like; from the evidence available the last several > hundred years have been rather abnormal. Since I was old enough to notice in > my middle teens, people have been yelling, "Doomsday is neigh". In every case > they were wrong. Why should I listen to the current crop of doomsayers. >
Hey, I'm all for a return to the Medieval Optimum (A period that ran from around 500AD or earlier up to 1100-1200AD when the Little Ice Age started). The southern UK had a climate similar to northern Italy today back then, and Greenland was a grain-exporting colony. Overall the world was several degrees warmer than today. It was omething of a golden age with regards to the climate. I'm waiting for more data on AGW, and would really prefer that the world concentrate on reducing emissions of real pollutants rather than a gas which necessarily constitutes an important portion of our atmosphere's basic makeup, at least barring some more comprehensive science including models and data you can't drive a truck through(Yes, the science so far is good, but we know the atmosphere and biosphere are far more complex than we've been able to model. Current models do not do a good job of handling known microclimates or atmospheric complexities, and they simply don't regress properly). -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
