Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 09:03:26 -0400, Dan Post <dpost@triad.rr.com> wrote: > > Perhaps in the coming ice age, the Neanderthals will re-emerge and > replace Homo Sapiens Sapiens the same way they were replaced during the > start of the last warming cycle! I wonder if you can start a fire with a > Leica and a flint? > > Dan (Ungowha!) Post I'm sure Ted Grant will take exception to those remarks having never left! <grin> More seriously, as a world culture we seem to think that "things were always this way" and seem disconnected that the planet DOES swing through some very dramatic excursions. That's not to deny that we are, quite likely, pushing the change and making it happen more rapidly. There are signs that the CO2 absorption mechanisms MAY be saturating which could add CO2 much faster than current models have allowed for. But global warming study IS science in action -- so there's going to be a wide spectrum of approaches and analysis. Unfortunately politicians and mere mortals find the uncertainty of the scientific method difficult to deal with. Still, we have to make decisions based on the best information we have at the time. I have come to believe that we need to intervene. Adam