[at-l] Follow Through On Global Warming (OT)

[jbryankramer at msn.com (J Bryan Kramer)]

First I don't accept anything that "I invented the Internet" Gore has to say
as bearing any relationship to the truth, so try finding a real citation.
IIRC there are periods where CO2 went way up but global temps did not, they
may have been before period that the antarctic cores cover.

 Secondly, the sceptics are not saying that the earth is not getting warmer,
we just say that we don't know why it is getting warmer. There are many
possible causes, not just one.

Bryan

 Samuel Adams advised, "Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity,
and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the
sake of the latter."

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>          Al Gore took out another full-page NY Times
> advertisement today on
> global warming. I had to post on it because it contradicts what
> one poster was
> asserting about historic CO2 levels. Scientists recently took 2
> mile-deep ice
> core samples in Antarctica and studied the tiny air bubbles
> encased in the ice
> to determine what the atmosphere was like in the past. The
> ice-trapped air
> showed several fluctuations in CO2 levels and temperature over
> the last 400,000
> years. These ups and downs correlated to 4 ice-ages.
>
>            The graph printed in the advertisement showed that CO2 levels
> corresponded directly to increases in world temperatures. At
> least in this 400,000
> year sample, there was no period with high CO2 levels accompanied by low
> temperatures. The advertisement indicated that earth is currently
> at the highest
> level ever, within that 400,000 year history, of CO2. If fossil
> fuel burning
> continues at expected rates, Gore says that we will double the
> atmospheric CO2
> level by the year 2050, and may even quadruple it further on.
>
>           Gore states that there is now no argument amongst
> scientists that
> most of the world's glaciers are currently melting. Glacier Park
> will lose all
> its glaciers in the next few decades. Mount Kilimanjaro should lose its
> glaciers within 15 years.
>
>           I personally find it interesting that some people post
> quickly when
> there is a record cold snap, but do so without commenting about a record
> european heat wave that killed 15,000 people last summer...
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