Edmund, To be fair Global Warming is at the Conjecture to Hypothesis level of the science spectrum. Properly it is proto-science.
Putting every bad bit of weather down to global warming is like living in a state of fear and imagining every Muslim is a terrorist. Look what freedoms we are giving up in this belief that we're all about to be attacked by a few nutball terrorists. By analogy we might take it on that GW should be *considered* and tentative policy changes implemented. We might take it on too that the increase in terrorism is due to dissatisfaction and that foreign policy might be wrong... but not all wrong surely!? R. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edmund Storms Sent: 06 September 2005 21:08 To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: Global Warming - State of Fear An interesting point. This same point can be made about cyanide. An average person weighs about 80,000 gm. It takes about 50 mg of NaCN to kill an average person, which is only 0.0022 inches on the football field. Obviously, a person can not be harmed by such a small distance. No wonder the average person has no understanding of the real world when this kind of argument is used. Ed Terry Blanton wrote: > Michael Crichton makes an interesting analogy in his book on Global Warming: > > "Imagine the composition of the Earth's atmosphere as a football field. Most of the atmosphere is nitrogen. So, starting from the goal line, nitrogen takes you all the way to the 78 yard line. And most of what's left is oxygen. Oxygen takes you to the 99 yard line. Most of what remains is the inert gas argon. Argon brings you within 3 1/2 inches of the goal line. That's pretty much the thickness of the chalk stripe. And how much of the remaining three inches is carbon dioxide? One inch. > > "You are told carbon dioxide has increased in the last 50 years. Do you know how much it has increased, on our football field? Three-eighths of an inch -- less than the thickness of a pencil. Yet you are asked to believe that this tiny change has driven the entire planet into a dangerous warming pattern." > > >
