Thursday, December 7, 2006
global warming . . . or not?
It's evident that weather has been weird (lots of hurricanes (2005), almost no hurricanes (2006), warm months (November 2006), cool months (summer 2005), etc., etc). But bottom line is that it's not clear what's going on mostly because our perspective is a tad limited from the point of view of millenia which is the only perspective that would really prove anything, the earth being a living breathing fluctuating organism and all. I wish those newspapers in the attic from 8,000 years ago had held up better. So it's extraordinarily distasteful - repugnant, even - for some senators to try and quash research on the subject. There is no justification for such a request. Un-dictated knowledge is essential.
Labels: reflections
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