The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Phil L wrote:
David Hansen wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:52:30 GMT someone who may be "Phil L"
wrote this:-

If the government thought there was any benifit in doing this, they
would have done it, there isn't so they haven't, unless you believe
all the bull**** about global warming, this is a natural trend and
the govt have seized on it as a way of making money, when in
reality, there's feck all we can or can't do as a species to change
it one iota.
Ah, proof by assertion.

I think I'll take the view of those who understand the subject
deeply, thank you.

Don't mention it.

But who / what caused the last global warming which melted all the
ice after the ice age? - or the other thirty or forty ice ages
previous to that? - many scientists are now saying that it's part of
a warming trend - something the earth goes through regularly,
followed by a cooling trend (ice age), and Britain has been a
desert, a jungle, a warm tropical lagoon and been under a mile of
ice on numerous occasions over the eons, there's no reason to
believe that just because we can now measure this occuring that we
have caused it, nor can we cause it to stop, just go with the flow,
at least it's going to get warmer before it gets nippy, very nippy,
for a few thousand years
If you do your research, you will fund that global CO2 is likely to
exceed what the world has seen since the carboniferous era..thats a
good few millions of years back,when insects were the dominant life
form..oh and giant ferns.

In case you hadn't noticed, or were blinded by the human superiority complex
that most of us suffer from, insects are still the most dominant life form,
and more to the point, 60% of all animals on earth have 6 legs - humankind
is a tiny blip on the biology of earth, as are all mammals for that matter.

You may look forward to being reincarnated as a giant gnat, but I
don;t have that faith..

Who cares? - we're born, we live, then we die..the middle bit is *life* - I
certainly ain't spending the rest of my life worrying about something that
none of us can change.