An Inconvenient Truth

you're right. the global warming thing, it's all just a scare tactic. One designed to get us off of our asses and to do something about it. It looks like the ozone is finally beginning to rebuild (the destruction of which was completely man made). but global warming. let's see, during the age of the dinos, it was all a lot hotter--oceans were a scorching 100 degrees farenhieght. Also, sea levels were a lot higher.thing is, the earth is in a cooling stage. we are just now getting out of the last ice age. and something tells me that those 15 million people in new york don't want to live underwater. so yeah, the warming's happened before. but not like this. not with man adding to what the volcanos do. we push it out of balance with the addition of industrialism. by 2050, or something like that, new york will be under water--not the tops of the towers, mind you. glad I live a mile high (quick quiz--what's the mile high city, and you know where I live then). But I feel sorry for you, NJ. you're gonna be under water, if I remember where portland is.so, if it's natural, you don't want to stop it. in the process, you lose your home. smooth move.

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All a man's knowledge comes from his experiences

which one though, geographic or magnetic

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All a man's knowledge comes from his experiences

so I take it you don't accept continental drift theory?because yeah, greenland was once part of pangea. just as all the other continents (and that massive island nation that was once a penal colony--no, not Georgia).do you know how many times earth has been a lush place? The greatest it's ever been was in the carbiniferous period--that's where all our coal comes from. after that, the world pretty much went desert mode, and came back out to tropics mode in the jurassic period. since the dinosaurs, we've been through several ice ages.oh, and about 600 million years ago (not talking about the explosion) there was a global ice age. as in, even the equator had ice floating on top of the ocean. It's still a hypothises as far as I know, but it's a damn good one (they occassionaly run the show on discovery).here's a decent link for te drift theory--includes a animated graphic too.http://www.enchantedlearning.com/...glossary/Contdrift.shtml

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All a man's knowledge comes from his experiences

yeah, i never did understand why greenland is covered by ice and iceland is covered with green stuff (It does have ice--in the winter, but it's still a lot more green).if greenland's ice does melt, as least one of the two names will make sense.

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All a man's knowledge comes from his experiences

ahh, so it was all about the moola (stupid real estate agents)Too bad the mini ice age occurred and took my ancestors out of greenland and america.

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All a man's knowledge comes from his experiences

for those of us unfortunate to not have scientific american, can you give a link to this article?

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All a man's knowledge comes from his experiences

thanks, I'll try to enjoy--looking down the barrel of a gun normally isn't pleasant.

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All a man's knowledge comes from his experiences

yeah, in Arizona. what's that song called.Of course, where I currently live is in no danger from rising water--just lack of and increased heat.

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All a man's knowledge comes from his experiences

so you mean that colorado's gonna be moist?damn, I just left Virginia, why do I wanna go back to 90% humidity?

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All a man's knowledge comes from his experiences

interesting. then we're still dry. But New Orleans is shit out of luck.

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All a man's knowledge comes from his experiences

your first link is broken, at least for me.
the second one works just fine, bringing up a picture.can you fix them, or tell me where to search for them?Thanks.

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All a man's knowledge comes from his experiences

ohh. I'll save that hint for later--hopefully I can pull it out of this grey mush parasite that inabits the inside of my head when I need it next time.oh, and thank you.

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All a man's knowledge comes from his experiences