Comments on: Paleocene-Eocene tanning salon

By: *** Dave

*** Dave — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:43:52 +0000

The question being what we can or should be doing to forestall it, or to plan toward it.

Regardless, my actual point was to your statement about criticisms of science by the religious zealots. The problem is, of course, they try to have it both ways. If a scientific theory is generally, even universally accepted, then we hear, “Science is a religion, taken on faith, where there is no dissent allowed.” If a scientific theory is under attack within the scientific world, then it’s, “See, scientists admit they don’t know the truth, so our mental meanderings deserve as much credit as anyone else’s.”

Feh.

By: george.w

george.w — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:09:50 +0000

I wish that were the case but you’ve got it just backwards. The PETM provides actual data of how greenhouse gasses and global climate are related. The gasses can come from volcanism or from buring fossil fuel, makes no difference. What the scientists are seeing is that due to some factor they don’t quite understand, the effect is bigger than their current models had predicted. That is not good news to say the least.

By: james old guy

james old guy — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:03:48 +0000

Holy crap, you mean global warmng just might be a natural cycle that the earth goes through. The mind boggles. I thought it was all the hot air from republicans and democrats lieing to and about each other. I guess i will die someday afer all.

By: george.w

george.w — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:13:35 +0000

Well the record number of comments I ever got was a post on tomatoes. It’s apparently something people care about a lot. If global warming turns out to be a danger to the tomato crop, maybe well see some action…

By: webs05

webs05 — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 22:10:19 +0000

LOL DOF, the 1.5 persons post is beating out this one on paleoclimatology. But anyways that is really interesting information. I wonder if the weather we have been having lately is also an indicator. Whether or not it is it still worries me.

Check out the link below for a great laugh. http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/11/24.html#a6042