Re: Wikipedia Promoting Global Warming Hysteria?

On 17 Jul, 01:19, c...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Cary Kittrell) wrote:
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> > On 16 Jul, 02:13, =A7=A7 KR=A5K=A5T =A7...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:55:30 -0700 (PDT), Robert S
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> > > >On Jul 15, 7:51 pm, abelard <abela...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > >Slight warming is unequivocal. The pro****tion, or lack thereof,
caused
> > > >by man is very much equivocal.
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> > > >How's the Sun doing now? We might be in for a new mini ice age.
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> > > That would be kewel! :)
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> > Climate is constantly changing, and has been for hundreds of millions
> > of years empirically. But changing about an equilibrium point.
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> > Yet, miraculously, the present climate is apparently nirvana,
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> In fact it is, in the sense that both the biota and human cultures
> are adapted to the current climate.

What was the average temperature over the time period in which
humanity evolved? I'll wager quiet different from what it is right
now, purely from a statical point of view.

> > and any deviation from it will be disastrous.
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> And because both the biota and human cultures are
> adapted to the current climate, then deviations
> do in fact have the potential to be disasterous.
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> If the current average global temperature were five degrees
> warmer -- or cooler -- then the same arguments
> would apply.

Humanity lives in deserts and in tundra and everywhere in between.

Sentience enables very, very rapid adaption.