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As the smoke cleared, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> mounted the barricade and roared out: > Robin van Spaandonk wrote: > >> It is infinitely less complex than the human >> >body and brain, or the ecosystem of the Serengeti, or my back yard, >> >for that matter. >> >> It is more complex than all of those things, because they all form a >> part of it. >> Every living thing on the planet affects the weather to some extent, just by >> living. > > I realize that, but the effect of short term inputs from living > creatures (things that vary by the century or millennium) is much > smaller than inputs from chemicals which are present in stable amounts. If any of youse got my email about the CBC radio science series on MP3 podcast, you might know that one of them is a hour-long interview with James Lovelock, the originator of the Gaia Hypothesis... killfiles can be a double-edged sword youse know. ;P - -- grok. - -- *** FULL-SPECTRUM DOMINANCE! *************************************** * Boycott the Bourgeois Economy: BUY PROGRESSIVE * ****** Critical endorsement only ***** Gift-giving Year-round ****** * http://www.cafepress.com/handsoffvenez Hands Off Venezuela store * * http://www.cafepress.com/tarantulabros Tarantula Brothers Emporium * http://www.southendpress.org South End Press * * http://store.publicintegrity.org Ctr for Public Integrity store * * http://www.assatashakur.org/books.htm Assata Shakur Books * * http://www.greenandblacks.com Green & Blacks Fairtrade Chocolate * * http://www.fairtrade.org.uk Fairtrade Mark UK * * http://www.fairtrade.ie Fairtrade Mark Eire * * Neoconservatism: Where Borg & Empire strike back thru The Matrix * GPG fingerprint = 2E7F 2D69 4B0B C8D5 07E3 09C3 5E8D C4B4 461B B771 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkm4ddMACgkQXo3EtEYbt3FQLgCcC0FKCX9Rn1LWBJNV5zmYrQ66 2NUAoLZdLquw/b6Qi7+jW+eFH73TwWZ/ =/Lix -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----