tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32512109.post4966549627218576554..comments2024-01-18T10:23:52.187-08:00Comments on On My Mind: Global Warming: Hoax?Jayhawkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00756807802218022043noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32512109.post-88290011225941879782007-11-14T23:35:00.000-08:002007-11-14T23:35:00.000-08:00I do realize that man can change the earth.. terra...I do realize that man can change the earth.. terraforming, growing capability, erosion, yes even the climate. Many of the ones in a position to DO something about it either scoff at it, or there is not enough of them to form a coalition big enough to have momentum. And I agree about Bush's war debts, and have little hope about that, because ALL politicians have little will about changing the budgetary process.. after all, it's not "their" money..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32512109.post-21851852480561058182007-11-14T22:33:00.000-08:002007-11-14T22:33:00.000-08:00Now here is an odd thing: your sister taught me t...Now here is an odd thing: your sister taught me to not believe every thing I was told, and to think for my self. And she and my father encouraged me to learn how to do my own thinking. And I think that Al Gore is a bit of a blow-hard. But I also tried to learn, for myself, over 40 years ago, how climates worked and changed. (Specifically, during the ice-ages, in case any one is wondering.) Because of that, and reading about the history of science and technology, I figured out, by myself some 30 years ago, that global warming was theoretically possible, and that we were running that risk. I also figured out, again for myself about 10 years ago, that the signs were that it was starting. Al Gore is a late-comer to the party! <BR/><BR/>As to your "suspicion...that it’s happing...faster than we know", I am certain that it is, and am pretty sure that it is speeding up. I also suspect that there are tipping points, after which catastrophically rapid (and irreversible) changes can happen. (Be afraid, be very afraid!) <BR/>The models of past years predicted a range of possible consequences. I find it amazing, and extremely disconcerting, that the actual recent observations of climate phenomena are at or worse than the most extreme scenarios of those past predictions. And many of the mechanisms have thresholds, the first of which we only hit a couple of years ago. <BR/><BR/>I am rather afraid that Bush's war debts are going to prove the least of our children's problems. And that the world may become so unlivable there may not be many grand-children. <BR/><BR/>[Arthur]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com