[Paddlewise] Global Warming: Fact or Unproven Theory?

--- obrien <obrien_at_proaxis.com> wrote:
> >> Some scientests are now saying that corals may be
> >> largely gone in 25 years
> >> due to global
> >> warming!!!!  
> >
> >TD said: If we lose coral, it will be due to
pollution, not
> global warming.
> 
> Obrien said: Today I heard on NPR that 2 years ago
10% of the
> world's 
> coral was dead.  It's now 27%!  It's been looked at
>       extensively and the overwhelming evidence
> points to warming.

NPR, while occasionally entertaining, is so far to the
liberal left that there is little they say that one
can take to the bank.  I would be highly suspect of
any "scientific" findings they report.  I am not up to
date on the latest findings on global warming; but if
I wanted to get an accurate balanced assessment, I
sure wouldn't go by NPR.  
  10,000 years ago, the northern hemisphere was
covered in ice to the extent that Long Island, NY,
(where I live) was a terminal morraine.  Is it warmer
now than then, yes, but thats besides the point of
alledged recent short term accelerated global warming.


> When the sea otter were virtually wiped out in SE
> Alaska and BC the same thing happened to the kelp
> forests.  Dispite our best efforts, these forests
> are not back in anywhere near historic levels.  Once
> 
> this ecosytem is disrupted, it will take a long time
> to
> recover (unlikely in several lifetimes).

Fear mongering is a perenial popular pastime that I
have neither hope nor ambition to curtail; however,
for the sake of those who may perhaps be easily
influenced by dogmatic psuedoscience, I have humbly
offered the aforementioned to assuage undue fear.

>  Unfortunately, the masses in this
> country
> don't show much will to manage problems until crisis
> strikes.
> And government is always two steps behind the
> public.
> Serious, sensable ecologists have been marginalized
> by
> conservatives and industrial spinmasters.

I agree that Americans often operate in crisis
management mode; but I will wait until there is at
least a consensus amonst most responsible scientists
that global warming even exists before I start to
worry about it.  
Tom Dowling 


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