Very true indeed

Marien

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From: "mike gray" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 11:10 PM
Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] climate change


> JOHN A CRAMER wrote:
>> This is very odd stuff considering that NOAA data shows the ocean
>> surfaces have been losing heat content since at least 2005.  On the
>> average, CO2 increase lag (not lead) world temperature increase by about
>> 800 years.
>
> The human species is incapable of comprehending time spans in excess of
> roughly 72 hours. 800 years is as meaningless to a human as astrophysics
> is to a flea.
>
> Therefore, human science is populist science: it defines everything in
> terms of current events. E.G. the disappearance of the Maya and the
> Khmer are both explained today by climate change. During the cold war,
> both were explained by conflict between superpowers. Before that, both
> were Malthusian.
>
> Today, there are no phenomena that cannot be explained by climate
> change, and climate has become the de facto explanation for everything
> we observe and everything we expect to ever observe.
>
> So learn to live with it. It's only temporary.
>
> m
>
> p.s. this post is the result of the increasing narcotic effect of CO2,
> as measured by the Meyer-Overton method.  As CO2 continues to increase
> over SoFla, we can expect an exponential increase in looney posts, along
> with a huge increase in demand for olive oil.

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