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Date Posted: 07:25:02 09/26/08 Fri
Author: RadioRay (Cheeky Bits -)
Subject: Re: Associated Press Article
In reply to: Gary 's message, "Re: Associated Press Article" on 19:47:51 09/25/08 Thu

Remember that this is at best 'emerging' science in that 'they' have not a lot of data to even know what the normal temperature is supposed to be. Remember: we just recently emerged from a 'mini-ice age' and from a warming that led to more crops in higher latitudes. The Viking expansions to the 'New World' (not so new to either them or the people living here...) occurred during an almost 500 year long radically warm period. So warm that they were farming in Greenland and making generally ice free sailing voyages back to the Norse homelands. I doubt seriously that CFC's, CO2 or other industrial pollutants were the cause of this and other temperature fluctuations.

In a British science journal that I was reading, they were touting the present doctrine that man's industry is the cause of global warming, that CO2 MUST be radically cut back (read most of our modern world's progress) etc. Not two paragraphs later, the author had a chart of 'green house gasses' and their effects..... CO2 was almost dead last in it's KNOW effect in this incidence but the BIG offender - the one with virtually no regulation and that had the largest effect - many time that of CO2 in the same amounts and this gas was already in LARGE amounts in our atmosphere: methane. In short 'cow farts' , and even 'green sources' such as rotting vegetation on forest floors - methane.

So - rather than CO2 fines, restricting industry etc. I'd suggest a flatulence tax (you're in favor of a 'flat-tax - right?) so that those who stink will be fined and the money used to improve the diet of most of the world's people and reduce this deadly danger. Repeat offenders will be required to take "Beano" tablets with their meals to reduce/eliminate their gaseous emissions to appropriate levels. Europe being made-up of small countries, the flatulence tolerances will likely be rather small. North America being HUGE, I would think that we could continue to pass gas -as is the custom in one friend's house - for a few more decades without significant impact.

Yes, perhaps I'm being a bit cheeky, but remember, this is much of the same 'science' that told us we would absolutely be out of fossil fuels by 1982, that we were entering a "New Ice Age" from automotive exhaust etc...

As for oceans - well melting the ice caps a bit gives us more places to sail. That's bat news for low lying islands and for Bangladesh, but it's great for those of us with an urge to sail in Arkansas or the central vally of California....


>RadioRay ..._ ._
s/v Milenka
Weems, Virginia - USA

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