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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

That was interesting , Marie ..................bobford


--- On Mon, 10/20/08, Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Global warming??
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Monday, October 20, 2008, 8:22 PM
> 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
> >
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > ........"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
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