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Hawke[_3_]

On 2/18/2010 6:05 AM, wrote:
On Feb 18, 1:28 am, wrote:
I'd be willing to bet that the experts are going
to say the same thing next year they have said for the last decade.
Global warming exists and man is doing it. Me, I'd rather be safe than
sorry. I don't know what you use for your logic. I can't find any.

Hawke

My guess is that next year they will be saying that Global warming may
exist and man may be doing it. As I see it now burning fossil fuels
ought to be producing some effect on the earths temperature, but it is
really hard to prove it.

Read Super Freakenomics. There is a section on global warming in it.
CO2 is not a major influence on global warming. Water Vapor is the
biggest factor, Methane is second. CO2 is a minor player.

Dan

I just watched a show called How the Earth Was Made. It was all about
climate change over the ages and specifically about ice ages. They had
geologists who were studying ice cores that were 2 million years old. It
was a good show. When you see how many years the earth was mainly
covered by ice it makes you wonder about global warming. Seeing all that
ice makes warming seem not so bad. My point is that we could have all
the global warming going on and then whatever it is that creates ice
ages could come into play and over ride the warming. If earth's orbit
were to shift just a little the planet could go back to being covered in
ice. If the sun put out less energy for a short time we could have
another ice age. Any number of things could trigger another ice age.
None of that is happening now and from the science collected over the
last 20 years the data shows we're getting hotter. I find it hard to
believe that man's burning of fossil fuels doesn't have any effect. I
have seen what burning gasoline does in L.A. so I can't believe we
couldn't do the same thing planet wide. It's hard to know what to
believe when the anti global warming side is putting out propaganda to
support the energy industry. All we have to rely on is what scientists
tell us. I saw the geologists explaining how the landscape of the earth
was created by glaciers. I don't know otherwise so I take their word for
it. They know more than I do. It's the same with the global warming. The
scientific experts have said the planet is getting hotter for 20 years.
I have to take their word for it. When there is proof showing that's
wrong I'll accept it. Until then I'll believe what the vast majority of
the experts say is true. And as long as energy producers have a
financial reason to make global warming seem false I'll be skeptical
about their arguments.

Hawke