The title of this thread is extremely inaccurate. It is as inaccurate as Al Gore saying that man's influence on Global warming is definite. The professor of the paper in question, Lindzen, is respected in climatology. If the article is accurate, it means that carbon dioxide plays a minimal role in global warming, which has been shown in other studies that illustrate this, in particular, that temperature drives carbon levels, not the other way around. This does not mean that A) Global warming is not occurring nor B) man is not an influence on Global warming.
The fact is, due to the lack of weather data, scientist are not able to determine if man is the cause of the current rise in temperatures. There is still a lot research being done to determine what is causing the temperature rise. That Al Gore says that Global warming is due to man in a factual manner annoys most scientist studying the issue because the facts are not in. Many scientist suspect that mankind is the cause for scientific reasons. No one has proved it yet. Some scientist say that man is the cause because they believe it is the only way most people will take pollution and/or global warming seriously. Regardless of what the cause is, current models show that if the earth's temperature go past a certain critical point, no action by man will be enough to cool things down and temperature will continue to increase killing much of the life on the planet. Bottom line, temperature are increasing and the cause is still scientifically unknown, however, if it keeps going up, we could all be screwed. Chris... On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Ragi Y. Burhum <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> We are all using Linux and Open Source to reply his e-mail perhaps? >> :-/ > > Paul used Google to find the story > > Google = tons o' Linux > > Therefore, this story is tangentially related to Linux. > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
