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To: aladin who wrote (157013)	2/7/2006 3:38:04 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 793743

What ever the sun does, and earth's orbit around it, will determine what global warming or cooling trend we get.

To: aladin who wrote (157013)	2/7/2006 4:11:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793743

<<Scientist predicts 'mini Ice Age' ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- A Russian astronomer has predicted that Earth will experience a "mini Ice Age" in the middle of this century, caused by low solar activity.>> This is what a columnist wrote in our local paper Sunday- ((Global warming The federal government recently reported 2005 was the warmest year on record since the late 1800s when accurate data began being recorded. Last year broke the record set in 1998. Over the past 30 years, Earth has warmed about 1 degree. Temperatures like these have not been seen in 10,000 years. Officials blame greenhouse gases. Please forward the report to the White House. Maybe someone there will finally get the idea. Why does an outdoor column concern itself with global warming? Simply this -- all life on the planet is adapted to temperature ranges. Alter that and you alter everything we care about.)) Same as 10,000 years ago, planet's heating up fast isn't it? That temperature range that might change by one degree? Locally we have had a temperature range of about 130 degrees between summer and winter. One degree might not kill all the flora and fauna around here. But I did a test this morning, went out naked and stood in the yard, 18 degrees. Brr. When it warmed to 19 degrees I almost died from sweating.

To: aladin who wrote (157013)	2/7/2006 4:35:33 PM
From: JDN	Respond to of 793743

Man, if I could just make it to then my Florida Real Estate ought to make me a bundle!! jdn

To: aladin who wrote (157013)	2/7/2006 6:27:43 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793743

I saw this show recently and was fascinated. It's about the "Little Ice Age" that started in the middle ages and lasted into the nineteenth century. There was a little bit at the end about how global warming could produce another ice age. I recommend the show. historychannel.com

To: aladin who wrote (157013)	2/7/2006 7:11:29 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 793743

"A Russian astronomer has predicted that Earth will experience a "mini Ice Age" in the middle of this century, caused by low solar activity. Perhaps but the earth will be subject to much much more solar activity when the magnetic pole reverses which appears to be currently underway. pbs.org pbs.org

To: aladin who wrote (157013)	2/7/2006 7:14:14 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 793743

Let’s remember where we live, Kenner was saying. We live on the third planet from a medium-size sun. Our planet is five billion years old, and it has been changing constantly all during that time. The Earth is on its third atmosphere. The first atmosphere was helium and hydrogen. It dissolved early on, because the planet was so hot. Then as the planet cooled, volcanic eruptions produced a second atmosphere of steam and carbon dioxide. Later the water vapor condensed, forming the oceans that cover most of the planet. Then, around three billion years ago, some bacteria evolved to consume carbon dioxide and excrete a highly toxic gas, oxygen. Other bacteria released nitrogen. The atmospheric concentration of these gases slowly increased. Organisms that could not adapt died out. Meanwhile, the planet’s land masses, floating on huge tectonic plates, eventually came together in a configuration that interfered with the circulation of ocean currents. It began to get cold for the first time. The first ice appeared two billion years ago. And for the last seven hundred thousand years, our planet has been in a geological ice age, characterized by advancing and retreating glacial ice. No one is entirely sure why, but ice now covers the planet every hundred thousand years, with smaller advances every twenty thousand or so. The last advance was twenty thousand years ago, so we’re due for the next one. And even today, after five billion years, our planet remains amazingly active. We have five hundred volcanoes and an eruption every two weeks. Earth quakes are continuous: a million and half a year, a moderate Richter 5 quake every six hours. Tsunamis race across the Pacific Ocean every three months. Our atmosphere is as violent as the land beneath it. At any moment there are one thousand five hundred electrical storms across the planet. Eleven lightning bolts strike the ground each second. A tornado tears across the surface every six hours. And every four days a giant cyclonic storm, hundreds of miles in diameter, spins over the ocean and wreaks havoc on the land. The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide. For these same apes to imagine they can stabilize this atmosphere is arrogant beyond belief. They can’t control the climate. The reality is, they run from the storms. Michael Chrichton – State of Fear – p.618 - 619