> On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:17:19 +1300, RM wrote:
>
> >A NASA contribution to the ever popular global warming debate.
> >The "it's simply not happening" protagonists may be tempted to seize on
this
> >as proof of their version of this religious debate.  .......

> Since this information doesn't support the views of the
> sky-is-falling, end-of-life-as-we-know-it,
> evil-man-is-destroying-the-earth zealots, I don't expect that it will
> get very much coverage in the mainstream press.

I don't see anything here that suggests that the evil man is not attempting
to bring down the sky and end life as we know it (and I'm off to see the
king .... :-) ). And I'm sure that he (the evil man, not the king) doesn't
KNOW whether he is or not, has a fair suspicion that he may be doing his
unfair share of damage,  and doesn't care at all if he is.

It says that "El Nino" (stupid name for the phenomena) appears to have been
present for millennia at least. It doesn't address, as far as I recall, the
models that suggest that increased CO2 concentrations increase global
temperatures (let alone the fact that we are producing a lot more CO2 than
heretofore), the models (based on modern scientific knowledge) that suggest
that certain chlorine products destroy high level ozone and the fact that
decreases in high level ozone concentration cause increased UV irradiation
of certain populaces, or the models that ..... let alone the facts that ....
.

Wise minds will, I think, file it away as more grist for the mill, tell the
jury to stay out for now and sit back and continue to watch proceedings.
But, I may be wrong :-). (In the mean time you could also try to grow an
eternal tree or two and belch less.)(The vast majority of cows' Methane
emissions comes from the "front" end.)

When the seas freeze a few centuries from now (an interesting and by no
means improbable outcome of global warming, should it occur) our
descendants, should there be any, will curse us chapter and verse for our
short-sighted self interest and rationalisation of the entirely obvious *.





        Russell "all models are wrong, some models are useful" McMahon



* The path of reality viewed in hindsight, be it ever so obscure at the
time, often appears entirely obvious.

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