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Skriven 2007-09-10 09:03:14 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
   Kommentar till text 5835 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: Global Warming
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09 Sep 07 00:31, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Janis Kracht:

 MvdV> Oh, it is. The earth *is* warming up, the thermometers do not lie.

That's odd. This past spring and summer have been cooler than it was in
2006 AND 2005...South Texas didn't get over 95 degrees F this summer.

 JK>> interestingly enough, one of today's headlines over here was the
 JK>> report that most polar bears could die out by 2050..

 MvdV> Or even sooner. The polar ice caps are melting. The north pole
 MvdV> maybe ice free in the summer as early as 2030. Polar bears can
 MvdV> swim, but not 24/7 for the whole summer... :-(

I'll betcha they're smart enough not to do that. Seeking firm footing
seems to be every land dwellers forte'...

 JK>> I agree with you that the evidence that man is largely responsible
 JK>> for the warming is less overwhelming, but as you say, that evidence
 JK>> is growing as well.

 MvdV> The evidence is pretty strong already though.

How does this account for the fact that Mercury's and Venus's temps have
been increasing right along with Earths?

Answer: the sun's temp is going up, which increases the temps on those
planets within it's sphere of influence.

 >>> As I wrote, I stopped trying to reason with them long ago.

 JK>> I understand that one.

Since she's a lefty, that's right on par.

 MvdV> In the late 70ties I was a research fellow at Utrecht University.
 MvdV> The department I was in, was dedicated to finding non exhaustible
 MvdV> energy sources. My particular field was photovoltaics. Others were
 MvdV> working on wind and hydrogen. Somehow someone in the mail
 MvdV> department saw fit to send all the crank letters about perpetua
 MvdV> mobilae to us. We got one a week on average. Some of them were
 MvdV> eh... interesting. ;-)

Quite...

                R\%/itt


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