Monday, December 18, 2006
Global Warming - An inconvenient fact
Apparently, it HAS been globally warm before...
In the Canadien Free Press, Vasko Kohlmayer picks on politicians, while offering some interesting data:
"Energized by the latest election results, the global warming community is getting ready for a major push to stop what is referred to as climate change. Claiming that it represents a major threat to our survival, they argue for tough laws to contain the ecological calamity that is allegedly unfolding even as we speak. At the center of their legislative efforts will be Barbara Boxer, the incoming chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. A fierce environmental crusader, Ms. Boxer has already promised ‘a very long process of extensive hearings.’ It is to be hoped that among the many dire scenarios that will undoubtedly be painted, someone asks this simple question:
Have you ever wondered how it is possible that coal deposits exist in Alaska?
Given that coal forms from plant matter smoldering in the basins of warm swamps, the Alaskan tundra must have once been overgrown with Amazon-style forests. But for those forests to flourish a hot and humid climate was required, completely unlike the one that prevails there today."
