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To: LindyBill who wrote (10746)	10/4/2003 3:42:16 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793717

Re Kyoto: What a very interesting article, LB! Thanks for the find!! Thanks to Veizer and Shaviv, the missing data has now been provided. By analyzing fossilized seashells, Veizer reconstructed a record of Earth's temperature for the past half billion years and found a repeating cycle of temperature increases and decreases every 135 million years. Although this periodicity corresponds with no known terrestrial phenomena, it does correspond well with our movement in and out of the bright arms of the Milky Way galaxy. Because interstellar matter bunches up in the galaxy's arms, we see the birth of large, very bright, but shortlived, stars that end their lives as supernovas while still inside the arms, giving off powerful bursts of galactic cosmic rays. This causes predictable changes in the amount of cosmic rays impacting our atmosphere, a phenomenon clearly visible in the geologic record. Veizer and Shaviv found that changes in galactic cosmic ray intensity correlates quite well with the Earth's temperature variations over the past half billion years.

To: LindyBill who wrote (10746)	10/4/2003 4:29:52 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793717

Our Instant Experts by Charles Krauthammer washingtonpost.com "His major mistake was disbanding the army. And even this judgment should be rendered with a bit of humility. At the time, it seemed the right thing to do." [My comments: Right thing to do my a$$! The State Department, and too many others that protested vehemently this disastrous move, were no "instant experts". The dissolution of the Iraqi army was the right thing to do only in the eyes of the myopic ideologues at defense that are still running things in Iraq -- but hopefully not for very long.]