On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:46:05 -0800 (PST), z
wrote:

On Dec 19, 9:47*am, "Ryan P."
wrote:

* Isn't it funny that all these melting glaciers are revealing ancient
forests? *How can it be possible that only a few hundred years ago
Greenland was a bountiful colony, and within 100 years became too cold
to support pre-industrial civilization? *How was the planet ever warm
enough before humans built their terrible, nasty, electricity-needing
civilizations? *Clearly those ancient forests, tropical plant fossils in
the Antarctic, and sea creature fossils found on the tops of mountains
were put there by George W. Bush and other Republicans JUST so that they
can deny global warming!

Well, you got a fine point there. In fact, for the vast majority of
the earth's history, it was much warmer, like ten degrees fahrenheit,
and had 5 times as much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as it does
now. but, all those ancient forests you mention came along, and pulled
so much CO2 out of the atmosphere that it couldn't decay back as fast
as they converted it to carbohydrates, so vast quantities got buried
during the carboniferous era. Hey, maybe that's why it's called the
carboniferous era? And after a hundred million years, the CO2 in the
air was where it is now (or where it was a hundred years ago,
actually) and so was the temp. So, if we dig all that buried carbon
back up and put it back in the air over the next century, there's no
way it can affect the climate, right?

* Who determines what the "perfect" global climate is? *

Oh that's easy. Whatever climate happens as a random byproduct of big
companies doing stuff to maximize profit without having to deal with
the end/waste products, is perfect. Otherwise, you're a socialist and
want to destroy the US.


you have the readers digest condensed version ? I fell asleep right
after "Well "