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br> Harker Heights, Texas /p> p> WET SCIENCE br> Re: David Holman's Schweitzer's Folly : /p>

Thanks for your continuing effort to tell the truth about glaciers and global warming. The polar ice cap once covered Canada and extended into the U.S. It has been melting for a very long time.

p>A few years ago, I read a book by a Canadian climatologist who specializes in glaciers. He wrote that the weather conditions necessary for glaciers to form and maintain their size are extremely rare: The ocean during the winter must be unusually warm in order to generate the necessary precipitation; the winter air must not be too cold or it can't hold the moisture; the summers must be unusually cool to prevent the snow from melting; these conditions must exists for decades. Those conditions could occur only if something blocked the sun for decades. He speculated that such blockage might occur in an era of frequent, large volcanic eruptions that spewed dust and ash into the atmosphere. br> -- Roger D. McKinney br> Broken Arrow, Oklahoma /p> p> Great post. Earth's ecosystem has existed and protected itself from all comers, including some sizable meteorites, for about 80,000,000 years that we know of. The notion that a temperature trend can be discerned from 125 years of weather data is preposterous to the 10th power. Even if this is a trend, what proof is there that 1) humans were (are) powerful enough beings to have caused it and did cause it, and 2) humans are powerful enough beings to reverse it. It takes a big head (or hidden agenda) to believe either.

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