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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (19344)	1/2/2008 6:41:26 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 36917

I betcha the guys looking after the weather station in Nairobi have that box painted whiter then white. It's one of the few positive things they have going on in their lives at the moment.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (19344)	1/3/2008 12:32:33 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

"There is no doubt that people are having an effect on the weather, if not the climate. The question is how big an effect." Accountants are taught about the Principle of Materiality. In a hundred dollar petty cash account a $5 missing receipt is Material. In a $10,000 payables account it is not. Smart accountants don't spend much time chasing down immaterial items. I read today that there is more evidence of organized civilizations with established trading in a much larger part of the world than just the Breadbasket of Mankind in Iraq around 3000 BC. I suspect it was because there was a warmer period then that made civilization easier (the article I read did not say). The Earth has cooling and warming cycles that are currently beyond ma's ability to understand. Many of the "scientists" on the GW bandwagon were alarmists about the impending Ice Age that was 1970's scientists feared was coming. 40 years is not a material measurement period in a multi-millennium cycle. Even a hundred years is not material.