Monarch Extinction press releases.
Stanley A. Gorodenski
stan_gorodenski at asualumni.org
Thu Nov 13 18:42:26 EST 2003
Chuck Vaughn wrote:
> stated outright that it is human caused. We give ourselves so much
> credit! The planet has been much warmer and much colder than it is
> right now. We now find ourselves in a slight warming trend after a
> cooling tend a few hundred years ago. So What?
Although there have been periods in geologic history where the planet
has been colder or just as warm or warmer than now, the difference is
that the models developed by researchers in this area cannot account for
the current increase in temperature unless they introduce anthropogenic
factors as the major, or only, causes. This is where simple correlations
with the past can be misleading. It is true that their models may be off
and there are other undiscovered influencing factors (such as the
recent, I believe, realization of the absorption of CO2 due to the
uplift and weathering of mountains), but I place more faith in the
results of their research than simple correlations produced by the
non-scientist or scientist not researching in this area. I have not yet
seen a convincing argument (the correlations with geologic past are not
convincing to me), with the _possible_ exception of sunspot correlations
Paul produced some time ago (which was, apparently, successfully refuted
a few years later) on the other side that seriously throws into doubt
anthropogenic factors as being the major, or only, cause of the current
global warming.
I am not preaching and I am not an authority on this subject, just
stating things as I know them. Does anyone have convincing evidence that
seriously throws into doubt th athropogenic hypothesis? I would like to
know because, like most everyone else I would guess, our opinions are in
part molded by what we believe are credible sources.
Stan
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