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To: JDN who wrote (95219)1/14/2005 10:32:55 AM
From: Michelino  Read Replies (1) of 793957
 
The more direct the hotter it will be, the less direct the colder.

Well that's the seasons right there, that is what causes them in the temperate zones. In winter your hemisphere points away from the sun, in summer it points toward it. But every change in that angle has been accounted for the last few thousands years...Astronomy might be older than history and where the pole points to has been tracked pretty accurately for some time.

Surely natural events can have devastating effects. In fact, at least twice within the last 200 years alone a single volcanic eruption has affected weather cycles all over the globe. Neither am I implying that the ongoing global changes would somehow be more acceptable to civilization if they were more "natural".

Yes, rain forests are part of it. Yes, nature can still throw punches that make mankind look puny. The scientists who are following global warming account for all of this. Man's emissions are not all the puny...the scale of which and the ability to calculate, guestimate and compensate for these is just not appreciated among political pundits. The naysayers are people that think of percentages as advanced calculations and cannot comprehend when to use them...they might accept that in one twenty year period we could devise a nuclear arsenal with potential to destroy most of mankind in one hour, but somehow the fragility of this thin envelope on the surface of the planet and the unintended changes we can introduce by the vast industrial processes we have created...well their answer is always denial. As I have stated here before, conservatives today are the "Neville Chamberlains" of the environmental crisis.
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