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January 4, 2006
More Global Warming
55 Million years ago, according to some scientists, rapid global warming changed the course of the ocean currents. They don't know what caused it, but they do know, from core samples taken, that the reversal lasted for about 100,000 years before it mysteriously reversed back.
Now here's my problem with this theory. They are assuming that present day currents are the baseline, and any change from that is considered an anomoly. It's as if they have this ideal, based on present day measurements, that they want to preserve (present day meaning the last couple of hundred years). Any change from that ideal, in their thinking, has got to be the result of man, and therefore man must make ammends, but what if man has nothing at all to do with it? What if the environment, which is constantly shifting, changing, and evolving, is only part-way through what it will ultimately become?
What if present day currents are the anomoly?
What if the changes they see are not the result of a negative impact by man but are part of the natural correction process?
The idea that man can exact a permanent toll onto the environment is, I think, based on the false premise that today's environment is static, which it is not. I especially love this sentence, mentioned in the article:
The higher the level, the greater the risk that a vicious circle of global warming could be unleashed, inflicting potentially irreversible damage to Earth's climate system, scientists say.
The irony runneth over.
Posted by Jonathan at January 4, 2006 1:57 PM
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