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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (215744)	1/8/2002 2:35:09 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) of 769667

THE COMING ICE AGE: Yes, global freezing is back. Check out Elizabeth Kolbert’s newyorker.com fascinating piece in the current New Yorker. She reports from research in Greenland, where analysis of ice particles hundreds of thousands of years old beneath glaciers is revealing far greater climate volatility than we ever imagined. One expert describes the process like this: “Dozens of rapid changes litter the record of the last hundred thousand years. If you can possibly imagine the spectacle of some really stupid person (or, better, a mannequin) bungee jumping off the side of a moving roller-coaster car, you can begin to picture the climate." What does that mean for us? It turns out we could well be due for a major freezing, a climate change so dramatic it makes global warming seem like a pipe-dream. Does that mean that global warming could actually be a good thing, an ameliorating trend against the Big Chill? No one seems to know. It might be, or it could trigger the Ice Age. The only conclusion I can draw from this piece is that we really don’t know how the climate works, but we do know it changes rapidly. To believe we can control or harness it is simply hubris. andrewsullivan.com

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