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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 3:11 PM, bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> I know someone on the list is knowledgeable about this subject, I am not.  
> I don't know if this person has real credibility or is a kook, but he is 
> quoting and using measures found by credible scientists.  I am not making a 
> point, I don't know enough.  I'm just, now, more skeptical than I was 
> before .....bobford
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> ........"Don Easterbrook, a geologist at Western Washington University, 
> says, "It's practically a slam dunk that we are in for about 30 years of 
> global cooling," as the sun enters a particularly inactive phase. His 
> examination of warming and cooling trends over the past four centuries 
> shows an "almost exact correlation" between climate fluctuations and solar 
> energy received on Earth, while showing almost "no correlation at all with 
> CO2."...........

Weeeelll, most people working in the area think that human activity is
causing global warming, but most scientists have been known to be
wrong before. We've had quite a lot of global warming (polar ice caps
warming, Greenland glaciers disappearing, etc), so if this fellow is
right then the new cooling period should have a noticeable effect.

But don't worry about global warming. This could wipe us out next week:
http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/environmentandenergy/archive/2008/10/16/supervolcanoes-pfft.aspx

The letters are entertaining.

Marie, who would prefer extinction via a direct hit by an asteroid