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   From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/9/25 10:43 PM, Dhu on Gate wrote:   
      
   > On the other hand, AGW might not be a bad idea.   
   > I grew up listening to a Paleo Botanist maunder   
   > on about climate change, which is REAL.  The last   
   > 3mil years have been *cooler* and *drier* than normal   
   > for this planet's biology.   
      
   We're inside of an ice age.   
      
   Approximately 3 million years ago, and through the process of   
   plate tectonics, the Isthmus of Panama formed. This changed   
   the circulation of ocean water over the globe. Most of the   
   sun's energy falls along the equator and then is distributed   
   around the globe via currents...   
      
   It took hundreds of thousands of years but eventually deep   
   ocean temperatures fell significantly and we were inside of   
   a new ice age:  The Quaternary Period.   
      
   At present, the Quaternary ice age is characterized by a   
   glacial/interglacial cycle. The glacial periods are what   
   people MISTAKENLY think of as ice ages. The interglacials   
   are exactly as they sound -- a warm period between two   
   glacial periods.   
      
   The interglacial we all live inside is call the Holocene.   
      
   The Holocene is NOT a particular warm interglacial. It's   
   actually cool. It's several degrees C below the last   
   interglacial, the Eemain, and sea level is approximately   
   16 feet lower.   
      
   The Holocene is due to end. The Holocene is overdue to   
   end!  And, no, not because of Gwobull Warbling. It was   
   already overdue to end in Roman times... pre Roman times!   
      
      
      
      
      
      
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   >    Ce n'est pas Francais ou Anglais,   
   >    C'est une esp`ece de sauvage.   
   >    Ne obliviscaris: vix ea nostra voco!   
   >   
   >   *A mari ad mari ad mari*   
   >   
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