At 10:24 PM 10/20/2002 +1300, you wrote:

Dear Paul:  I thought you would enjoy this from a sheller on the list.

Cari

>Gotta say this!!!
>
>Despite all of the hype, pure subjectivity and ignorant emotional
>garbage, the idea of human-caused global warming is nothing but an
>idea and is used by many as a bandwagon to jump on. There is NO real
>evidence for GLOBAL warming occurring currently. Some AREAS are
>warming, some are COOLING.
>
>Virtually nothing is known about causes of climatic change, and
>blaming any purported warming on the minute quantities of CO2 and
>other "greenhouse" gases released by man is ridiculous and utterly
>unscientific.
>
>One large volcanic eruption can pump far greater quantities of such
>gases into the atmosphere than man has produced IN TOTO over the
>centuries. One slump on a continental slope has the potential to
>immediately release enough methane from hydrocarbon clathrates to
>potentially change the global climate over a period of weeks.
>
>One thing that the geologic record (and in particular paleontology)
>displays clearly is that there is NO SUCH THING as stable climate.
>Temperatures are always rising or falling, usually very slowly but
>occasionally so rapidly as to be sudden. Exactly why change occurs is
>so far up to speculation; all we can objectively say is that it
>happens and far from being the exception, it is the norm.
>
>Rant over. I am aware that this posting will generate responses, and
>I will not reply to any which are uninformed!