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To: LLCF who wrote (5113)	6/18/2001 11:19:01 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) of 74559

Don't have to wait until 3001 to see if there is in fact a 400 year cycle for global warming and cooling which has nothing to do with man.:) One of my favorite books of all time is Bad Land, by Jonathan Raban, about the poor idiots who believed the hype they read in the newspapers [put out by the railroad companies] about the potential of the American grassland as farmland, and tried to set up traditional European style farms, only to be beaten by the inexorable facts of climate. amazon.com Made more poignant for me by the grandparents who tried to make a new life for themselves in the Dakota territories in the 1910's, only to finally give up in 1917, due to the natural drought cycle reasserting itself. "Don't fight the Fed" is trifling compared to "don't fight Mother Nature." I can report that tonight the stars can't be seen in Northern Virginia, too damp, too hazy, because it's been raining lately - the air smells like hickory because I've been smoking brisket and pork butt, all day, and the meat is still not done. The grass is wet. We were supposed to get a drought this year, but maybe it's going to miss us.

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