Anthropogenic global warming?

[i_r_e_d]

lol it usually has, don't take it to heart

SHH!!! Don't tell anyone!!! Its a secret....

[robertkernodle]

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Well,... I found ... THIS

Anyone care to join me in taking time to read it and share your reaction?

Yours truly,

outside the box
RK

[kotoreru]

I must admit the only part of that I read was the summary paragraph, and that was for good reaon (to my mind). Really; blaming catatrophic event frequency increases on the interstellar medium??

Life on Earth has been going for around 3.5 billion years(?). Seems very convenient that these Earth-altering changes from the Beyond should start appearing just as Humans become able to detect them...

[robertkernodle]

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Why so strange? Cave men did not have the technology or model development to percieve such possibilities. Certain realizations hinge on the technology timeline, where instrumentation and convergence of enough human experience mounts up to bring forth such awareness.

Strange that we should be moving our bodies at 60mph only now, since the wheel has been around for thousands and thousands of years.

Is that a mis analogy?

RK

[kotoreru]

You misunderstand me, Robert.

Realisation (or observation) and emergence of a thing are seldom tightly coupled. It's like going back in time and just happening to be looking at the first cell to engulf another and form the mitochondrial symbiosis we all exist upon, JUST as it happens.

Basically: what are the odds?

I suppose these interstellar disruptions brought about the end of the dinosaurs...

Gah, forgive my closed mind.

[robertkernodle]

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I simply am suggesting that these forces might have been in operation all along, but our technological and intellectual power could not discern them.

Maybe these other alleged cosmic forces (dare I say "astro-ecological"?) were part of the orchestration of past major climate shifts. Current climate shifts are not the only ones that have ever happened, we know.

I do NOT think that you have a closed mind, by the way,...

RK

[kotoreru]

Astro-ecological - excellent! Try it again on the minds of the time in 500 years or so lol

I do feel however that this particular article is more of an excuse than anything else - something the US Government would use to argue Climate change (much like they used Michael Crichton's new book, oh how we laughed...).

[robertkernodle]

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Do these numbers and arguments seem sound to YOU:

Anthropogenic CO2

and

Myth Busters

??

Robert K.

[kotoreru]

Those two pages made me do this: sigh. Loudly.
Really RK, where do you find this stuff?

[robertkernodle]

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So, K

Is that a sigh of dismay, a sigh of annoyance, a sigh of "who the hell do I believe?", a sigh of ...........??

The data duels seem unresolved to me.

We really don't seem to know for sure.

When we start weighing both sides, arguments seem strong either way.

I could see how this might cause a sigh.

RK

[James]

The sigh was because its generally all rubbish.

[kotoreru]

A quick look at the references section will reveal why I sighed. Rather too much of it is from UK universities...oh the shame.