[opensuse] OT: Too Much Swap (plus literary, educational, grammatical, and climatological digressions)
(Forgot to mark this as "plain text" ...) ...last I knew, we were now heading towards "global cooling..." http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2013/05/26/to-the-horror-of-global-...
James Knott 06/26/13 1:00 PM >>> James Knott wrote: Lew Wolfgang wrote: On 06/26/2013 10:17 AM, James Knott wrote: BTW, not too long ago, it was the policy of the Texas Republicans to oppose critical thinking in the school system. Keep 'em dumb and controllable. Cites please? Not that I'm saying you're wrong, James, I'd just like to see the context.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/texas-gop-rejects-crit... Here's a good one from that article: "Controversial Theories – We support objective teaching and equal treatment of all sides of scientific theories. We believe theories such as life origins and environmental change should be taught as challengeable scientific theories subject to change as new data is produced." There are still a lot of creations running around. As an example, look at what happened in Dover, Penn. pedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District Also, many on the right refuse to accept the risk of global warming issues, calling the virtually 100% recognition of the problem by scientists "controversial". This is the kind of nonsense that's becoming popular these days. In the past, it was done by the church (and still is), now the right wing politicians. What's worse is the fundamentalists who welcome the coming climate problems as part of the Armageddon. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Christopher Myers wrote:
...last I knew, we were now heading towards "global cooling..."
There have always been shorter cycles riding on longer ones. It's the long term ones we have to worry about. There is no doubt, except by those who refuse to accept the evidence, that adding certain gases, such as methane and carbon dioxide to the atmoshere raises the temperature. There is a lot of evidence in sediment and ice core samples that show this, and it has happened naturally in the past. But since humans started burning coal, we've been adding CO2 to the atmosphere that had been locked away for millions of years. So, if you look at the earth's temperature over the past few hundred years, you will see many ups and downs, but the long term trend is up and at a faster rate than generally happens normally, other than when there's a significant disruption, such as a large volcano. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
There's a offtopic list for this type of discussion:
opensuse-offtopic@opensuse.org
I'm on that list and climate change is often discussed, but this is
not the place for it.
Greg
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 4:40 PM, James Knott
Christopher Myers wrote:
...last I knew, we were now heading towards "global cooling..."
There have always been shorter cycles riding on longer ones. It's the long term ones we have to worry about. There is no doubt, except by those who refuse to accept the evidence, that adding certain gases, such as methane and carbon dioxide to the atmoshere raises the temperature. There is a lot of evidence in sediment and ice core samples that show this, and it has happened naturally in the past. But since humans started burning coal, we've been adding CO2 to the atmosphere that had been locked away for millions of years. So, if you look at the earth's temperature over the past few hundred years, you will see many ups and downs, but the long term trend is up and at a faster rate than generally happens normally, other than when there's a significant disruption, such as a large volcano.
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