From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Mark wrote:
> "Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote: I
> wonder what next year's hurricanes will be like.
>
> http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0511250123nov25,1,6049968.
story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
> "...But the new core shows that the interglacial period of 440,000 years
> ago, when Earth's position relative to the sun was very similar to what it
> is today, lasted nearly 30,000 years and was not ended by natural decreases
> in carbon dioxide, Stocker said. The work suggests that the next ice age is
> about 15,000 years away."
>
> We'll have to wait to see the actual reports and interpret the spin that
> various zealots put on it, but the above paragraph seems to say a lot.
>
> 1) that we're in a similar position as we've been in the past.
> 2) the conditions didn't change due to decreased carbon dioxide and
> 3) that even if reducing it had been the solution, which it's not, we would
> have had about 500 generations or so to solve it.
>
> We can't even imagine what advances will be in place a mere 5 generations
> from now, let alone 100 times that. Preliminary Conclusion: Yawn.
>
>
Gee to say that we're in a similar position as we've been in in the past is
(a) untrue as are you sure that humanity was humanity 440K years ago
& (b) you could take any time period & find a similar one "in
the past".

Adam

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