"Bill in Co" <surly_curmudg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> But we do know that we (as a human race) won't be around all that much
> longer (due to the now irreversible, manmade global warming) =A0 =A0THAT
i=
s not
> beyond human understanding. =A0 =A0I understand it. =A0 But the planet
its=
elf will
> survive. =A0 And perhaps some plants.
Because there exist photographs of glaciers a century ago
and last year, and because there are measurements of
melt water exitting Greenland at many time the rate of
snow fall on Greenland, it is certain that global warming
is happening.
What is not certain is the relative size of the human
contribution to global warming. Any discussion of global
warming that does not address issues like the Little Ice
Age, length of interglacial eras in the past, orbit ellipse
evolution, solar output variation and so on misses any
natural input to global warming. Since natural inputs tend
to overwhelm human inputs the question needs to be
about percentage of human causation not labels of
"manmade".
The deal with climatic change - It has always happened
since long before humans existed. It has happened with
humans on the planet like during the Little Ice Age of the
1300s. It causes significant social upheaval and large
human migrations. It does not cause extinction. In fact,
since it warms large areas that used to be too cold for
intensive argiculture it doesn't even necessarily decrease
the total land under cultivation. Just which land is under
cultivation. Interesting times but not extincting times.
What this has to do with marriage is indirect at best.
Marriages go through turbulent times when spouses
change over time. Some changes are rapid, others slow.
If a marriage is a metaphor for human society and vice
versa, let's all be in therapy. Oh wait, posting on-line is
theraputic ...
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