we read articles like this day in and day out yet we STILL DO NOTHING (or very little).
Hot "Prehistoric" Conditions May Return by 2100, Study Says
Brian Handwerk for National Geographic News
September 28, 2006
Earth's future could resemble its hottest ancient epoch, a new study says. Picture palm trees swaying in Canada, warm seas lapping at shorelines hundreds of feet higher than they are today—and no natural ice anywhere.
That was the scene some 50 million years ago, scientists say, and rising carbon dioxide levels could make Earth's future look much like this hothouse past.
(Related: "Global Warming Is Rapidly Raising Sea Levels, Studies Warn" [March 23, 2006].)
The study shows that the high carbon dioxide (CO2) levels found during the Eocene epoch match the CO2 levels predicted for the end of this century by many global warming models.
The Eocene occurred between 56 million and 49 million years ago. It featured the highest prolonged global temperatures of the past 65 million years.
"Some frost-sensitive plants, like palm trees, lived to about 60 degrees north [for example, as far as southern Alaska] and south latitude," said geologist Tim Lowenstein of New York's Binghampton University. Lowenstein co-authored the new study, which appears in tomorrow's issue of the journal Science. ........
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The Republican War on Science has a nefarious root - the tobacco industry. When starting their discrediting of science, they had to have a benchmark for defining junk science - they did so by picking on Global Warming and then were going to do their magic on second hand smoke as a "related issue" when that was their actual target. Unfortunately for us, their work on Global Warming was effective beyond all hope and their work on second-hand smoke backfired extraordinarily.
My good, close friends, John and Brian have blogged about scientific misconceptions here and here. John is a geophysicist and Brian is a physicist and programmer who collects degrees like a hobbyist.
As a side note, John has assembled some of the most stunning collections of scientific visualizations on the net for the college where he works. Just google "tsunami visualizations" and his work is on top and you can explore from there.
thank you for the links rick. i shall read and read and read. however, not now at 1:44 am after having gone out with my entire (well almost my entire) department last night and getting ready to leave for work in an hour give or take.
rick, this is downright coincidental. i just took a quick look at the two links you sent. seems bex is a developer of stellent. i am working on a project now and part of that project involves stellent training. odd or no????
fascinating. Bex is the prime Stellent guru and even wrote THE book on it: here.
p.s. part of the book's acknowledgements includes a "thank you" to me. :)
awwwwwwwwww that is WICKED cool!
i know NOTHING about stellent. however, it does involve something i've written a test plan for (and am in the middle of testing). some kind of portal. sounds rather star trekkie to me (although i AM a fan of that) i don't get that part, i just get what needs to be tested. anyway, they need a volunteer to learn about stellent then teach others. i may be that volunteer
Maybe you can work out a training trip to Minneapolis . . . then we can drink beer. Brian likes beer and I like beer.
i'm laughing. a few years ago a company from minneapolis bought my little company (of course we have since been bought by an even bigger international company). i could have gone to minneapolis many times (years ago). then minot (a customer service center was built there). since i don't fly well i made everyone come here for their training (i had to train people so they could take my job. not to worry even though my department has trasitioned to minot, i am in a different one now). oh, my point. i did have a point i swear it.
as luck would have it, a dear friend owns a pub i hang in. you and brian are welcome there if ever you're in MY neck of the woods (i'll buy). the half door . they have a TON of imported beers. you'd like it there. it's a comfortable place to hang or eat or drink. i'm not comfortable many places, but it's my home away from home. they also just opened a 'burger bar'. i don't like that as much. it's FULL of people who just want to show off and be seen. it's crowded ALL of the time and full of peeps i'd rather not spend time with. they feature domestic brews.
oh i don't like beer AT ALL. i'm a stoli kind o' babe
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