From: "Rich Gauszka" 

There really is a large consensus on global warming. Just because the Bush
administration chose to censor/suppress/gut reports on it doesn't make it
any less valid.


"Mark"  wrote in message
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> Apparently then, we have an abundance of time Rich 
>
> I'm all for researching away, same will help in the long run to develop
> adaptation routines, the only true solution. I am sick, though, of hearing
> about all the economically detrimental stuff we should be doing right now
> because a bunch of die-hard politically correct "scientists"
want to push
> their unproven BS upon us.  and more of us can see through their OZ curtains>
>
>
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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>> Most of us are saying there needs to be more research and to see what we
>> can do about emissions that will speed up the warming trend. The Permian
>> extinction occurred over thousands of years.  There is time.
>>
>>
>> "Mark"  wrote in message
>> news:44600dcf$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> And with a 10,000:1 ratio against the most powerful things humans have
>>> been able to devise in their entire history, you still propose that we
>>> have rats chance in hell of modifying what the Earth feels like
>>> delivering upon us? >> pie-in-the-sky outlook to me>
>>>
>>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>>> news:4460062a{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>
>>>> "Geo"  wrote in message
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>>>>> "Robert Comer"
 wrote in message
>>>>> news:445fde98$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> possibility.  We've had 95% mass extinctions just
because the
>>>>>> temperature
>>>>>> went up 10F.
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems to me we've had mass extinctions because of
abrupt change due
>>>>> to
>>>>> meteor strikes or because if ice ages but not because
the temperature
>>>>> went
>>>>> up. When the temperature goes up, life flourishes.
>>>>>
>>>>> Geo.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The raising of temperature and the release of  frozen
methane hydrates
>>>> from the ocean  may have caused the worst mass extinction
in history.
>>>> It's still subject to debate whether the release was due to global
>>>> warming, meteor strike or volcanic activity or a combination
>>>>
>>>> http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s938770.htm
>>>>
>>>> The situation would have been much worse in the Permian
era, he said.
>>>> Ryskin calculated that prehistoric oceans could easily
have contained
>>>> enough methane to liberate an energy about 10,000 times greater than
>>>> the world's entire nuclear weapons stockpile going off at once.
>>>>
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