"David Hartung" <d_hartung@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> 4075 Dead quoted from:
> >
> > http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/11/8875/
>
>A site which has on its opening page the phrase "Breaking News
>for the Progressive Community" has credibility problems with me,
Yes, but since you already have "credibility problems", that
wouldn't surprise me to learn of your reciprocal opinions
being dictated to you by "Whirled Nut Daily"..
> > Civilization’s Last Chance
> > The Planet Is Nearing a Tipping Point on Climate Change, and It Gets
> > Much Worse, Fast.
> > By Bill McKibben
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> > There’s a number — a new number — that makes this point most
> > powerfully. It may now be the most im****tant number on Earth: 350. As
> > in parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
>
>yet the climate hasn't warmed in 10 years.
You're sadly mistaken, here's the data..
http://www.remss.com/data/msu/monthly_time_series/RSS_Monthly_MSU_AMSU_Channel_TLT_Anomalies_Land_and_Ocean_v03_1.txt
> > Civilization is what grows up in the margins of leisure and security
> > provided by a workable relation****p with the natural world. That
> > margin won’t exist, at least not for long, as long as we remain on the
> > wrong side of 350. That’s the limit we face.
>
>The idea that a society of around 7 billion people can affect Earth's
>climate, is a rational one. the idea that a gas which makes about 1/3d
>of 1% of the atmosphere is going to cause unstoppable warming, [..]
I strongly suggest that you stop making pronouncements about
science and what scientists have been publi****ng about this..
--You're clearly unable to grasp the basics, much less the details..
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