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Old May 5, 2007, 12:41 pm   #199 (permalink) (top)
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Agree pooey! If we want to reduce pollution nuclear power is a safe efficient and cleaner way to produce energy. There are other alternatives that should be considered. Clean burning coal technology used to consume the vast amount of coal available in this country. Hydrogen technologyy should be developed. All it adds to the environment is water.

But thats to reduce pollution and I'm not convinced that CO2 is the prime agent in global warming? Even the two alleged myths you posted refute your claims of certainty about the reason for the latest warming.
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From your sources..
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Secondly, it was becoming clear that ice ages followed a regular pattern and that interglacials (such as we are now in) were much shorter that the full glacial periods in between.
Hmm? There are periodic changes.

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One approach to forecasting the natural long-term climate trend is to estimate the time constants of response necessary to explain the observed phase relationships between orbital variation and climatic change, and then to use those time constants in the exponential-response model. When such a model is applied to Vernekar's (39) astronomical projections, the results indicate that the long-term trend over the next 20,000 years is towards extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation and cooler climate (80).
In the long term our progeny face cooling?

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Finally, its clear that there were concerns, perhaps quite strong, in the minds of a number of scientists of the time. And yet, the papers of the time present a clear consensus that future climate change could not be predicted with the knowledge then available. Apparently, the peer review and editing process involved in scientific publication was sufficient to provide a sober view. This episode shows the scientific press in a very good light; and a clear contrast to the lack of any such process in the popular press, then and now
Does this suggest that there is not any scientific certainty and as stated even so there was a clear consensus that future climate change could niot be predicted?


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