Re: warming

[Maury Siskel <maurysis@ev1.net>]

Hi Andy,

Just want to say thank you for your comments which seem to place mankind 

into a more appropriate perspective than the environmental pedestals 

erected by those overly enamored with the power of puny humans. I remain 

much more impressed by the energy displayed in thunderstorms and 

volcanos than by our toys (including the aggregated nuclear weapons and 

power plants). And there is no need to invoke quaint references to 

Mother Nature, et al  -- volcanic energy is intrinsically awesome; not 

Mother, or Father; just the relative raw energy in a volcano, 

thunderstorm, or simple dust devil.

Maybe there is danger that we might develop a wet towel for the sun 

....  <g>



Please know that I feel great respect for those who attribute such great 

destructive prowess to us. I believe, however, that the weight of the 

evidence suggests only minuscule anthropogenic contributions  to the 

small global changes being observed. We'll know more in just a few 

hundred years....   Sigh ....



In the meantime, political variables will continue to reign supreme over 

science. It is obvious that Russia signed the Kyoto Treaty for the 

contrived monetary benefits, not for reasons based on environmental 

science. Efforts to undercut the US economy are now advanced.

Cheers,

Maury            maurysis@ev1.net

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A Karam wrote:



>Regarding global warming, there are a few issues to consider:

>

>The sun is a moderately variable star.  In addition to the 11 year sunspot cycles, there are longer variability cycles going up to millions of years in length.  Solar activity is one of the factors controlling C-14 formation in the atmosphere, so we can develop solar activity records by looking at C-14 levels in objects of known age (e.g. tree rings) and seeing if there is more or less than we'd expect.  My

>recollection is that solar activity has been on the upswing for the past

>few centuries.

>

>What we consider "global warming" is actually more of a return to the

>norm.  For most of Earth's history 

>

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