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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SouthFloridaGuy who wrote (39652)	9/2/2005 3:21:20 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Unprecendented rate? Look at that little blip 10,000 years back. Looks just as steep as now. Global warming? You hard about the ice age that ma result from that? More moisture in the atmosphere condenses as snow in higher latitudes; that snow does a great job of reflecting back sunlight that is now absorbed by ground and vegetation. Result: snow accumulates and you get growing glaciers. Don't believe it? Try some googling. Numerous respected climatologists are advancing this as the real danger. Want to lose the midwest under a mile of ice again? I'm GLAD you like pollution. Go suck on your cars exhaust if you wish. I'm not found of it. CO2 isn't that, though. You're talking hydrocarbons and NOx. Different stuff. Skin cancer? Again, different mechansms and different chemicals: the flourochlorocarbons causing breakdown of O3. These compounds are already being eliminated and the ozone layer is recovering, usatoday.com again partially blocking ionizing UV radiation which causes skin cancer. Of course, fools choose to negate this beneficial effect by going to tanning salons so they can look nice and bronzed in winter. Many others refuse to use sunscreen to block out UV that gets through under the best conditions.