In reply to John Steck's message of Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:30:11 -0500: Hi, [snip] >I know picking a side is contentious, but I disagree entirely with that >statement. I will not argue the point that we are too reliant on a single >fuel source, that this addiction is dumping excessive C02 into the >environment, that this dumping is very bad, and that it has a measurable >negative effect on the thermal dynamics of the planet (crapping in our own >fishbowl). But it is a hard argument to maintain that the increase in >geological events is direct result. Cyclical warming and cooling has been >going on long before long before we show up in the fossil record.
By "both" I meant both "oil depletion" and "global warming". The strongest possible link I can see between global warming and e.g. pole shift is melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice caps which would result in a mass redistribution of the crust, which in turn would result in the crust slipping relative to the core as a consequence of conservation of angular momentum. >...ok, I am bumming myself out now. sorry. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition provides the motivation, Cooperation provides the means.
