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Hmmm, global warming.
As a meteorologist I definately have ideas on this subject. But, I'll keep it short. :-)
First, I tend to agree with what Halanna just said.
Now I'll take it one small step further. While global warming 'might' be occurring (I say might because in geologic time 50 or 100 years is merely a spit in
the ole' bucket) I do not see it as a problem that humans can, in all reality, either control or significantly influence. Mother Earth certainly retains that
province. And, within her sphere of influence, there are patterns that have been observed over long periods of time. (I'm going to cut a lot of meteorolocal
details here in the interest of not globally warming this particular thread. :-) :-) ) The bottom line is... and *this* has been clearly observed in the
past... that as the earth, or more specifically the Northern Hemisphere, warms to the point of losing substantial polar(Arctic) ice, a mechanism (if you want
the details I will gladly provide them) that has, again, in the past, been at the root of glacier formation and extreme winters in general kicks in. This
rapidly(geologically speaking) cools the Northern Hemisphere. IOW, it precipitates an Ice Age. One extreme leads to another. We 'may' be influencing the
earth's warming rate. But we are certainly *not* the master of it's climate.
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