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To: RMF who wrote (313933)	12/4/2006 10:41:53 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1573344

shaking head, man, unbelievable

To: RMF who wrote (313933)	12/4/2006 10:43:48 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1573344

I guess you also missed the warming period in 200 BC

To: RMF who wrote (313933)	12/4/2006 10:46:07 PM
From: Taro	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573344

That's when the Vikings moved to Greenland. Google on Erik the Red and Leif Ericsson and colonies on Greenland. Around 1350 AD or so a rapid cooling off period surprised them and sent the last of those guys 6 feet under. All of this fairly well known stuff. Taro

To: RMF who wrote (313933)	12/4/2006 10:49:31 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573344

"They've been drilling ice cores to determine the climate in every year in the past 100,000 years and I haven't heard anything specific about the period 900 years ago." He is talking about the Medieval Warm period. What he neglects to say, probably because he doesn't really know, is that there is no evidence that it extended much beyond Europe. Greenland was probably about how it is now when the Viking settled there. The colonies died out during the Little Ice Age because it became impossible to grow food. But you are dealing with a vast and unknowing ignorance. To the point that you start to conclude he is just faking it.

To: RMF who wrote (313933)	12/4/2006 10:56:07 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1573344

I forget, when did natives americans invent the wheel for transportation again? what century was that ?

To: RMF who wrote (313933)	12/5/2006 12:17:25 AM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 1573344

Ice core samples show alarming accelerating global warming especially in the past 50 years. This coincides with the growth of human population and our use of fossil fuels. Maybe population growth will doom us whatever we do in the end, but certainly we need to find less harmful ways of tapping and using energy, like for instance the infinite amount of virtually free 100% clean energy from the sun and the wind. Then the question is, can we run cars and make enough electricity that way. The answer is yes. Because the energy is infinite. But how do we do it? By trumping the oil and coal lobby and forcing them to butt off and join in, that's how. You see why the Exxon lobby wants to stop this common sense solution from ever happening. Their 40 billion a year is behind a huge effort to stop people from ever coming to their senses. Plus all the other companies and lobbyists representing the polluting fuel sources. I want to vomit every time I see those kids on TV saying that clean coal energy will be great for their generation. Coal energy is very damaging to the environment.