On Aug 1, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Apptech wrote:

> [TECH]:: NASA - Snapshot of past climate revelas no ice in  
> Antarctic millions of years ago
> [TECH] NASA - Antarctic was once much warmer
> [TECH]:: NASA - Amazon outflow found to capture CO2 - opposite of  
> previous belief
> [TECH]:: NASA - Typhoons bury tons of CO2 in oceans

I suppose that these are fine examples of what bothers me so much  
about much of the global warming "controversy."  "Global Climate  
Science" is a very new science, not very compatible with "the  
scientific method", and not very well understood (shucks, short term  
climate issues aren't very well understood, are they?)  And yet  
competitors at both ends of the argument are using each infinitesimal  
PIECE of data to predict either "everything will be fine" or "we are  
all doomed."  The reality is that we don't have a clue, and we aren't  
likely to have a clue until whatever will happen HAS happened.  Sigh.

The other major problem is suggested "solutions" that are not well  
thought out, or even well understood, in terms of THEIR consequences...

BillW

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