SD>Finally, thankfully, the global warming craze is dying out. To paraphrase
  >Monty Python, the climate parrot may still be nailed to its perch at the
  >recent COP summit in Belem, Brazil - or at Harvard and on CNN - but
  >elsewhere it's dead.

It's an easy subject to find people to violently argue either side..

I've always figured it was being blown out of proportion, not because
climate change doesn't exist, but because it's happened over and over
through history and I doubt we can be blamed for more than a tiny
percentage of the change. We can maybe speed it up or slow it down
very slightly but it's happening one way or another, just like it did
4000 years ago where we still have written records about it rather
than just the archaelogical evidence of climate shifts.

That time it lasted for about 3000 years so get used to it..
Any idea that we could turn this around in even a few hundred
years by changing our habits is fantasy..

They were growing crops in Britain 4000 years ago that they can't
grow today because it is now too COLD..

The world has spent about 65% of its time with no polar ice caps.

Global warming or returning to normal?

I often suggest that people who really want to know more, and not
just go with the popular talk, should read a book by Michael Crichton
called State of Fear, an entertaining thriller about eco-terrorists
but which contains a lot of factual information about climate change
and even lists the scientific articles to back it all up.

I beleive it was in that book where I read how any scientists who
went against the government party line on global warming lost their
funding and couldn't get papers published.

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 * SLMR Rob  * No sense being pessimistic.  It wouldn't work anyway
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