[ExI] global warming again
Stefano Vaj
stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Mon Mar 16 17:33:52 UTC 2009
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Max More <max at maxmore.com> wrote:
> Spike's hypothetical question about global cooling isn't so wild. In fact,
> it has been happening, depending on the time frame you look at. The globe
> actually did cool between 1940 and 1975, leading to widespread forecasts of
> problems from continued cooling. Warming then started again, but stopped
> around 1998. None of the models make sense of this.
The only thing that can be said regarding the current *cultural*
climate is that it opens the debate about geo-engineering.
Or rather, that it shows how far ideological biases go as far as such
debate is not being opened at all... :-)
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Stefano Vaj
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