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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (213055)	1/14/2007 6:26:59 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Maurice, you keep posting your ignorance for all to see. I'm so worried about your little ignorant quarter Maurices that I will answer your last post even though I know I shouldn't. I'm going to take some extra vitamins though to prevent me from catching your silliness. There is the idea that global dimming, from all those nasty pollutants, have kept the global warming problem from being truly nasty. The last 100 years IS the fossil fuel burning century. If we had been burning fossil fuels for a century before that, who knows what we'd be living through now. Do you remember how humans were living in 1906? How many cars were on the highways, how many jet planes were in the air? Earth to Maurice....is there anyone in there? There is also, rather obviously, the concept of tipping points along with acceleration of change. The weather, as I keep trying to explain it to you, is more complicated than the ambient temperature on any given day. It affects everything from how trees fall down now from the melting of 'perma' frost to the decline of the British cottage garden in favor of palm trees. The botanical gardens in Washington DC, just in the last 20 years, have gone from having tropical plants sheltered in greenhouses to tropical plants surviving the winter outside, uncovered. They noted that plants usually associated with places like North Carolina were now able to grow in New Jersey. I think it will be interesting to see if that Manhattan sized ice sheet that's currently stuck in the winter ice will work itself loose in the summer and whack the oil derricks....that would be a statement.