XPost: alt.global-warming, sci.skeptic   
   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/26/2026 2:27 PM, JTEM wrote:   
   > On 1/26/26 9:20 AM, Dawn Flood wrote:   
   >> On 1/26/2026 1:28 AM, Paul Aubrin wrote:   
   >   
   >>> The world population will culminate around 2050. Coal know reserves   
   >>> can last several hundreds of years, uranium reserves can last some   
   >>> millenia.   
   >>> During cretaceous, carbon dioxide concentrations were 5 times higher   
   >>> than now.   
   >   
   >> Yeppers!  And, global temperatures were higher, also, weren't they?!   
   >> But, please keep this in mind, as our beloved Star, our Sun, ages, it   
   >> gets brighter.  Now, what does that mean?!   
   >   
   > Why don't you start by attempting to establish as fact that your   
   > imaginary warming would be bad.   
   >   
   > The Ukraine is "The bread basket of Europe" but it is significantly   
   > colder than was ancient Egypt. Ancient Egypt would get two, sometimes   
   > three crops in a single year. They'd plant, harvest and then plant   
   > again. And if it was a good year they'd harvest that second crop and   
   > plant a third crop.... with a third harvest to follow.   
   >   
   > That doesn't sound bad at all.   
   >   
   > A warmer climate is a wetter climate. No, deserts aren't dry because   
   > they are hot. They're hot because they are try. Weather patterns --   
   > and mountains cause this a lot -- drop their moisture before they   
   > reach the desert. And that's why they become deserts in the first place.   
   >   
   > Anyway:  Warmer weather, you claim. Higher CO2. Plenty of rain. Wow,   
   > sounds like paradise for our food crops!   
   >   
   > Why would that be bad?   
   >   
   > I live in the northeast. We have what we call "Snow Birds." There are   
   > people who flee south in the winter, usually Florida, to escape the   
   > cold. Not surprising, our species -- OUR ENTIRE GENUS -- evolved with   
   > the tropics into the sub tropics. They needed a whole lot of things,   
   > the controlled use of fire for example, and some handy evolution of the   
   > mtDNA, before they could survive in the colder regions...   
   >   
   > Sorry, *We* needed those things. Us. Because we're a species, a genus   
   > that arose in the tropics and couldn't push further than the sub   
   > tropics without major adaptations... and you want to pretend warmer is   
   > bad?   
   >   
   > IT WAS WARMER FOR THE NEANDERTHALS! During the last interglacial, which   
   > ended maybe 130,000 years ago, it was warmer. Sea level was about 16   
   > feet higher. And CO2 was much __Lower__.   
   >   
   > Wow. We debunked not only your "Warm is bad" stupidity but also your   
   > CO2 myth!   
   >   
      
   Problem is that our World's climate is not something that you can set on   
   your thermostat.  When all of our World's ice is gone, Florida will flood.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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