Re: The Most Fun App That Doesn't Run On The Mac

In article <sfowf.27$BI3.1080@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"G. Isenhart" <gisenhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Tim Smith <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > That quote is not as clever as you think it is.
> >
> > If global warming happens, one of the likely effects is a disruption of
> > the Gulf Stream. The Gulf Stream is largely responsible for it not
> > being an ice age in much of Europe and North America. Hence, global
> > warming could in fact cause a new ice age.
>
> It's more like - would you like to burn to death, or freeze to death?
> take your pick. Or the more intelligent among us simply say, let's put a
> total stop to burning fossil fuels and releasing harmful gasses and get
> the planet back to normal in a hundred years or so, we have a choice.

An article in Scientific American within the last year suggests that the recent
trend toward an ice age has been held off by human activities and that once the
fossil fuels run out, the global warming trend will reverse. A lot.

But remember that science is not like the Bible: It does not pretend to have the
final answers.

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