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04 Jan 2013, 10:39 pm

JBlitzen wrote:
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That humanity throuh his tools release a lot of CO2 and other greenhouses gaz is simply undeniable and a fact. Unless you think that much combustion would not release anything.

If manmade CO2 emissions were the culprit, then the rise in atmospheric CO2 in the last fifteen years would have a corresponding and proportional rise in global temperature.

Right?


You are assuming linearity which is exactly what one should NOT assume when dealing with chaotic dynamic systems. They are highly non-linear.

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04 Jan 2013, 10:45 pm

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I was going to read the whole thread but gave up on the first page. I'm not sure if it's a problem of if it has happened before or not, or if it's natural. I think the problem is the fallout. What will be the overall affect of this happening. How many people could it affect? If this was going to cause some damage wouldn't it make sense to try to prevent it? It's obvious that we are at least speeding up the process. If the earth got hit with a life ending asteroid every 10,000 years or so would it be okay just to dismiss it as natural an nothing to worry about?


We would have to learn to spot these nasty cosmic bodies to give us enough time to make sure SOME of us survive the impact. Soon or later we are going to be hit by an asteroid or a comet and it will kill most of us and destroy civilization as we know it. 65,000 years ago it was the dinosaurs that were wiped out because of or in part a result of an impact of a large cosmic body. If we survive long enough as a species our turn will come too. What goes around comes around.

In addition to all that if we get hit by a gigantic solar storm, a coronal mass ejection of the magnitude that hit earth in 1859, we are in for a lot of pain. Our electricity based economy will be wiped clean. There will be a gigantic loss of life in the tens, hundreds of millions, perhaps even a billion.

The solar system is a shooting gallery. And there is a bullet out there with our name on it.

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04 Jan 2013, 10:50 pm

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Counting the hebrew exodus from egypt as a historical event no less, while there is no archeological or historical evidence. :wink:


The conventional date for the "Hebrew Exodus from Egypt" is the reign of Ramases II in Egypt. And you are quite right. There is no hard evidence that such an event ever took place. That will not stop me from celebrating Passover.

If you want to know what really, really happened 3000 years ago, build a time machine and go back and look. Until then we have speculation and hypothesizing based on very few items of evidence from that period. Several distinct stories could be concocted from the few artifacts and records that have survived to this day for us to ponder. Archeological based history is 30 percent fact and 70 percent likely stories about the few facts we do have.

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