[lit-ideas] Re: Shadows, Fog, and Money

  • From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:05:12 -0400

> [Original Message]
> From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 6/10/2005 7:57:23 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Shadows, Fog, and Money
>
> At 04:56 PM 6/10/2005, you wrote:
> >myth: the earth has warmed up between 0.8 and 1 degree F in the last
century
> >
> >
> >What about all the other evidence of climate change? Melting icecaps,
> >increase in Alaskan temperatures endangering a host of species, insects
> >like mosquitoes found at higher elevations than ever before, etc., ad
> >nauseum.
> >
> >Do you discount the other stuff as the result of insufficient knowledge
> >of earth's historical record?
>
> What do you mean by "ever before"? Do you mean, in the last few hundred 
> years when people were bored (i.e. not busy enough) to take those things 
> into consideration?
> I've been to Hoover Dam 4 times. Once it was overflowing over the flood 
> plains and shooting water hundreds of feet downriver through huge 25 foot 
> pipes. A few years later, the water was down 30 or 40 feet from its
"usual" 
> place. The other two times it was "normal". This is all in the past 18 
> years. Does that prove anything? You can't have it both ways. What is
normal?


There's a difference between a river level moving up and down and melting
ice caps.


Andy




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