Comments on: Global warming BS http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/2009/12/07/global-warming-bs/ Behind the scenes of Backwoods Home Magazine with Dave Duffy. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:50:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: roger and clare http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/2009/12/07/global-warming-bs/comment-page-1/#comment-2587 roger and clare Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:00:49 +0000 http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/DaveDuffy/?p=1208#comment-2587 hi to all at BHM we hope this link is not to late but it really show how much the lunatics have taken over the asylum.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1235917/ROBERT-HARDMAN-More-drips-melting-iceberg-If-save-planet-really-doomed.html please keep BHM spreading its truthful and honest message we need some rational thinking to counteract this idiocy. vbest regards roger and clare cotterill wales uk hi to all at BHM

we hope this link is not to late but it really show how much the lunatics have taken over the asylum.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1235917/ROBERT-HARDMAN-More-drips-melting-iceberg-If-save-planet-really-doomed.html

please keep BHM spreading its truthful and honest message we need some rational thinking to counteract this idiocy.

vbest regards

roger and clare cotterill
wales
uk

]]> By: Dave Duffy http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/2009/12/07/global-warming-bs/comment-page-1/#comment-2578 Dave Duffy Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:04:47 +0000 http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/DaveDuffy/?p=1208#comment-2578 No, but global cooling will probably mean a contraction of human populations. During the last glacial period, which ended about 12,000 years ago, ice sheets covered Canada and the upper third of the United States. If another glaciation occurs, and <a href="http://www.daviesand.com/Choices/Precautionary_Planning/New_Data/" rel="nofollow">ice core data suggests we are near the end of the current interglacial</a>, most of the population in that area will have to go elsewhere. Modern humans have lived through ice periods before, but the rise of civilization has occurred since the end of the last glaciation because warmer weather allowed nomadic humans to settle down in one place, raise food crops, and build cities. In other words, warm weather is good for humans, and cold weather is bad. Given the advanced state of technology now, I would hope that humans could survive another glaciation. The problem is that glaciations last much longer than interglacials. The last one lasted about 120,000 years. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_core" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia has a pretty good article on ice cores</a> that reveal the weather going back 420,000 years. Especially enlightening is the chart under the heading “Ice core data” about half way down in the article that shows temperature, carbon dioxide, and dust levels of the last four glacial and interglacial periods. The ice core data is pretty compelling that earth is about at the end of the current interglacial period. Rather than preparing for global warming, humans should probably be preparing for global cooling. No, but global cooling will probably mean a contraction of human populations. During the last glacial period, which ended about 12,000 years ago, ice sheets covered Canada and the upper third of the United States. If another glaciation occurs, and ice core data suggests we are near the end of the current interglacial, most of the population in that area will have to go elsewhere.

Modern humans have lived through ice periods before, but the rise of civilization has occurred since the end of the last glaciation because warmer weather allowed nomadic humans to settle down in one place, raise food crops, and build cities. In other words, warm weather is good for humans, and cold weather is bad. Given the advanced state of technology now, I would hope that humans could survive another glaciation. The problem is that glaciations last much longer than interglacials. The last one lasted about 120,000 years.

Wikipedia has a pretty good article on ice cores that reveal the weather going back 420,000 years. Especially enlightening is the chart under the heading “Ice core data” about half way down in the article that shows temperature, carbon dioxide, and dust levels of the last four glacial and interglacial periods. The ice core data is pretty compelling that earth is about at the end of the current interglacial period. Rather than preparing for global warming, humans should probably be preparing for global cooling.

]]> By: carol http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/2009/12/07/global-warming-bs/comment-page-1/#comment-2577 carol Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:31:37 +0000 http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/DaveDuffy/?p=1208#comment-2577 Isn't it really a mute point as to whether global warming/cooling is manmade or nature made? In either case, won't we possibly be extinct, as a result, just like the dinosaurs? Isn’t it really a mute point as to whether global warming/cooling is manmade or nature made? In either case, won’t we possibly be extinct, as a result, just like the dinosaurs?

]]> By: M.D. Creekmore http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/2009/12/07/global-warming-bs/comment-page-1/#comment-2576 M.D. Creekmore Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:19:42 +0000 http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/DaveDuffy/?p=1208#comment-2576 Well said - this is where most proponents of global warming get it wrong. Well said – this is where most proponents of global warming get it wrong.

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