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To: redfish who wrote (3661)	2/23/2004 2:03:41 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Could be 10,000 years away, 100,000. or longer any evidence of other ice ages before the last 5???

To: redfish who wrote (3661)	2/23/2004 2:16:33 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 173976

To circle back to science, last week's "J'accuse" by America's leading scientists underlines, among other things, a perilous danger. Although there is now a scientific consensus that industrial effluents are the leading cause of a (similarly unquestionable) global warming trend, the White House simply dismisses the evidence. And here again we have to keep the Lysenko example in mind. iht.com In the end, as the French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard said, reality has a way of taking its revenge. The Soviet Union finally disintegrated under the weight of its internal contradictions, a victim of the discrepancy between its ideologically distorted views and reigning reality. Kurt Gottfried, chairman of the board of directors at the Union of Concerned Scientists and a signer of the accusatory study, was quoted in The New York Times as saying that the administration's attitude toward science could place the long-term prosperity of the United States at risk.