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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (9259)4/26/1998 3:19:00 PM
From: Charles A. King  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 13091
 
It is true that the earth's climate has fluctuated as various things have happened over long periods of time. The sun's power may have waxed and waned, and land masses have shifted over the eons, causing changes in ocean currents. Mountain ranges have risen and fallen.

In addition, volcanoes have caused almost instantaneous but temporary climate changes and the sun has its own cycles. There used to be a 22 year cycle associated with the sun's climate.

Large masses of glacier ice reflect sunlight back into outer space, helping to perpetuate ice ages. I've even seen a hypothesis saying that as ice interfered with the flow of cold water from the St. Lawrence Seaway and from the Arctic, it modified the flow of currents in the Atlantic, helping to deepen ice ages by cooling Europe and causing the glaciers to expand there.

What some scientists are worried about is the lack of understanding of these processes. Their computer models predict gradual effects, yet the geologic record shows some fairly rapid and radical changes in climate at certain times that they can't explain. An attempt to explain such an effect is my example of the valve effect of the flow of cold water on Atlantic currents.

These climatic events have effects on most living things to a greater or lesser extent. A relatively slight change in temperature causing a rise in ocean level wouldn't affect dinosaurs as much as it would ocean front condo owners.

Right now, I'm more concerned about its future effects on my shares.

Some global warming material can be found at globalwarming.org

Charles