Re: 'Global warming is great ???

[Herbert H Gottlieb <herbgottlieb@JUNO.COM>]

I came in on this rather late. Would someone please
explain the high points of this topic in simple turms for
me and the other late comers?  All that I know so far
is that we are affecting our climate by building heat absorbing
cities in place of the cool woodlands and turning our
coal and oil reserves into a lot of waste heat that is supposedly
changing the world's climate into warmer summers and warmer
winters  and melting the arctic ices as well.

Is this kind of thing cyclic???  Have other civilizations done
so before??    Or is our creation of waste heat neligible
in terms of the greater picture?

Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(Which is replacing cool grasslands with
hot streets and buildings at increasing rates)


On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 19:25:23 -0500 Daryl Taylor <Daryl@DARYLSCIENCE.COM>
writes:
> Alright, John. Ya got me. I'm as guilty as the 'popular' folk I just
> yelled
> at. I'm RIGHT, but just as guilty.
>
> On the other hand, I have placed my scientific 'faith' in the
> multitude of
> real scientific studies that point at the conclusion that the earth
> has gone
> through a gazillion climate changes (plus or minus a bazillion...)
> and we
> are simply at the end of one of the cold ones. As opposed to the
> current
> batch of 'studies' that point at an increase of global temperature
> of 3
> degrees in the last 100 years then scream doom and gloom and boycott
> my
> Hummer! Big deal... What should one expect when coming off a cold
> phase?
> Hmmm. A heat snap? A little more warmth each 100 years or so? Let's
> look at
> the BIG picture before we start running for the hills of Manitoba.
> (Someone
> outbid me on eBay for my mountain manor in Manitoba, but my Mexican
> Hacienda
> looks good for my initial $50.00 bid...)
>
> Daryl Taylor, Fizzix Guy
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Forum for Physics Educators [mailto:PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu]On
> Behalf
> > Of John S. Denker
> > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 5:29 PM
> > To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
> > Subject: Re: 'Global warming is great,'
> >
> >
> > Daryl Taylor wrote:
> >
> >  > Want to convince me otherwise? Show me some proof.
> >
> > Good advice!
> >
> > > Again, I state that these climate changes are caused by forces
> that
> > > were set into motion long before our first slimeball ancestor
> >
> > Stating it is not a substitute for proof.
> > Stating it again doesn't help.