🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 15 Dec 1997 00:52:26 -0800, "Dani Kuettel" <kuettel@dsp.net>
wrote:
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>Dan Berkes wrote in message ...
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>>> Asking for proof
>>[...]
>>
>>...isn't unreasonable, and we know quite well that you'd be screaming for
>>same if you had to. Put up or shut up.
>
>I disagree.  In some cases proof is not necessary. 

I believe proof and common sense are necessary and both indicate
global warming is ocurring and is caused by man.  I don't know if you
consider the following facts proof, but I find them pretty convincing:

- 1994 was the warmest year in history

- 11 of the warmest years have occurred in the last 15 years

- certain Antarctic penguin populations have been decreasing and it's
been linked to the increase in tempatures.

--- the edge of the Qori Kalis glacier in the Peruvian Andes Mountains
was retreating at a rate of 13 feet annually between 1963 and 1978.
By 1995, that rate had grown to 99 feet each year.

 -- The freezing level in the Earth's atmosphere -- the height where
the air temperature reaches 32 degrees F -- has been gaining altitude
since 1970 at a rate of nearly 15 feet each year.

- Spring comes a full week earlier in the Northern Hemisphere and
Vegetation has increased 10 percent above the 45th parallel since
1980.

If you want to question wether man is the main culprit, I can easily
find some facts on that too, but I will leave you w/this:

A LARGE MAJORITY of scientists who have spent their career on this
very topic say global warming is occuring and we are the cause.  Of
course, there is a small minority (mostly funded by industry) that
disagrees.  But, I think you'll find some level of disagreement among
any subject.

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John W. Herberg
herberj@ibm.net