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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

One of the many subjects currently raising the temperature of tempers  
is global warming. One reads what one reads, makes a conclusion,  
stakes out a position and the fight is on. One must always be aware  
that tension is a robber of health. So just cool it. Earth's  
temperature has been rising and falling since, well, since Earth  
became Earth, and before, since Earth really did not become Earth  
until it was declared so by homo sapiens, one of Earth's newest  
inventions. Seems to me that we should expect climate change as we  
expect most other facts of life to change. Rather than get in a  
dither about who is right and who is simply making money out of  
pontificating, one profits most when one adopts the mindset of  
expecting and preparing for change.

Stay loose.

Here is an excerpt from:

Read the sunspots
The mud at the bottom of B.C. fjords reveals that solar output drives  
climate change - and that we should prepare now for dangerous global  
cooling
R. TIMOTHY PATTERSON, Financial Post
Published: Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Climate stability has never been a feature of planet Earth. The only  
constant about climate is change; it changes continually and, at  
times, quite rapidly. Many times in the past, temperatures were far  
higher than today, and occasionally, temperatures were colder. As  
recently as 6,000 years ago, it was about 3C warmer than now. Ten  
thousand years ago, while the world was coming out of the thou-sand- 
year-long "Younger Dryas" cold episode, temperatures rose as much as  
6C in a decade -- 100 times faster than the past century's 0.6C  
warming that has so upset environmentalists.

Full article at:
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/comment/story.html? 
id=597d0677-2a05-47b4-b34f-b84068db11f4&p=4