Re: The United States in Full Thrust

OK, off topic, but I'd be interested in what Beth
thinks on this bit of trivia.  They say a herd of
cattle produces more greenhouse gases in a year then
100 automobiles.  That's a lot of cow farts if you ask
me........now taking this a step farther.......I bet
the dinosaurs had some serious gas as well.....you
think that dino farts could have been the cause for
thier extinction?

--- Beth Fulton <beth.fulton@marine.csiro.au> wrote:
> 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
> 
> Beth
> 

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Thank You,

Shawn M Mininger

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