So somehow the liberals behind the global-warming scare machine slept through biology (possibly because there wasn't a Marxist interpretation - things evolve for survival not profit or proletarian revolution) and thus seem to lack any sort of broader perspective about global history. The world, I would argue, has gone through repeated periods of cooling (i.e. ice ages) and warming ("when dinosaurs ruled the Earth"). So, call me crazy, isn't it possible that we're experiencing such a shift now? Of course the larger questions are this: how much are we enhancing the effects of an otherwise natural climactic change; and how much temperature shift can modern society take without suffering some sort of collapse? On a related note, the Norwegians have begun construction of what some are calling a "Noah's Ark" of crop seeds, a vault whose purpose it is to preserve seed samples from around the world in case of some catastrophic disaster. Not to be a naysayer, but if the Norwegians don't survive, how are we going to find the damn thing?
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
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In a paper I wrote about 4 years ago, I discovered that the difference now, as opposed to previous periods of cooling and warming, is the sharp increase in a relatively short amount of time. In other instances, it took place over as long as centuries.
In addition another major concern with this issue is the deterioration of the ozone layer, which has nothing to do with the usual cycles of global climate change.
So while some of the issue could be attributed to the cycles of global climate change, the issue is greater than that.
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