Re: The United States in Full Thrust

G'day,

Glenn said:
 >It's been an interesting thread - but trying to bring 'future reality'
 >into Science Fiction (like bringing weather statistics reality into
 >Global Warming...) only results in pulling someone's chain. <grin>
 >
 >[Diving into my bunker before Beth the Biologist puts the 'red dot of
 >death' on me for denying the reality of the other "GW".]

Don said:
 >If it did warm would that bring back the dinosaurs???LOL
 >The people who do follow the GW theory should have a look
 >at the 5000 years of recorded human history, I think they would
 >be mildly surprised...........
 >Oh S***!!! IN COMING!!

Actually you're not going to get an argument from me. There is global 
weather change, there has been from day dot on Earth. Some of its
natural 
some of it is being helped by man, what is what is still fairly hard to 
tell. A lot of the problem stems from the fact "recorded history" has
been 
in a very calm and stable geological and climatic period so we have to 
stretch to see what it was like in other periods and how its changed and

how fast etc. I mean I find it very freaky that our cosmological
position 
in the galaxy (which changes very slowly I guess), plus our current 
tilt/wobble (which changes on geological timescales) has such a big
effect 
on the weather. Not to mention the magnetic poles (which geologically 
speaking are due for a flip), seismic activity etc. If you can separate 
science from the media long enough to get an honest discussion
scientists 
will be the first to admit that yes things are heating up compared to
the 
1900 etc, but whether that would've happened anyway is debatable and 
whether there will be a giant spike 200-400 yrs down the track when the 
deep ocean currents start returning CO2 (from the time of the Industrial

Revolution to now) back to the atmosphere is still anybody's guess. In
fact 
back in the 70s the prevailing wisdom was:
"that there will be a cooling of the globe brought on by pollution
induced 
cooling is as sure as the tax men cometh"
No wonder weathermen can't get it right ;)

Does beg the question of whether the Island nations joined the OU
because 
they were going underwater at a rate of knots.

Cheers