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The Greenland ices sheets have survived 110,000 years (as evidenced by the ice core data) - and seem to have been around for a lot longer. The current nett mass loss - as recorded by the Grace satellites - is inconsistent with that kind of survival time.
A "buried volcano" might indeed explain a local increase in mass loss, but the evidence suggests that the ice sheet is losing mass all over.
-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
He recently admitted that he only voted for it to get the farmers votes in his constituency and that it's not really a good idea at all.
Nial.
The failings of the US constitution, and its built-in tendency for politicians to use pork-barrel policies to buy votes, goes back to the mistakes of the founding tax-dodgers. Attributing a pivotal role to Al Gore is somewhat unrealistic. You and your right-wing nit-wit friends aren't exactly into realism at the best of times, but this should strain even your excessively flexible credulity.
That's the first time anybody has claimed that any US vice-president has done anything decisive. This has to be a joke ... presumably one that you didn't get.
-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
Ah, so you're saying you prefer slavery to Freedom.
It's pretty clear now.
Thanks, Rich
Idiot. As Vice President, he broke a 50:50 tie in the Senate to start the ethanol program. That one vote will kill millions.
The chaos-theory point was that his single vote (and he admitted at the time that ethanol was a net energy loss) will change the course of civilization. There was probably some smaller event, some childhood trauma or something, that made Gore into the jerk he is, and that led up to that vote.
You'd need imagination to get this point.
We were also discussing sci-fi, specifically the Foundation books. Rereading them, they are cloyingly juvenile, and the idea that a set of equations can predict the course of history, accurate to days, is preposterous. As of last night, we were predicted to have snow this morning. It's bright and sunny.
John
Why don't you take your own advice and simply ignore him? Who cares! This is Usenet! Sheesh! We've had quite enough of these endless, pointless disputes.
Jeroen Belleman
Your ideas about "slavery" and "Freedom" are no less off-the-wall than your other ideas.
Since you've got no idea what you are talking about, nobody in their right mind is going to be silly enough to agree with whatever it is you think you are advancing.
Everything looks clear to you, perhaps because you are gazing at rather different universe from the one that the rest of us live in.
-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
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Sure. and if he had made a principled stand against the idiocy, the lobby machine would have bribed a few more politicians and got it passed on the second attempt.
This is a joke, and either you don't get it or you are being ironical
- with the odds heavily in favour of you not getting it.
No, you'd need to believe that the US farm lobby could be derailed by a US politician with principles - as if such a creature ever existed.
Science fiction is always preposterous. If it wasn't it would be science fact - not a concept you seem to be equipped to recognise.
And who made the prediction of snow? Can you give us a URL for the prediction (and do identify the area that you thought that they were making predcitions about).
-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
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But you would agree Al Gore is somewhat hypocritical while using 20 times more energy than average?
"Since taking steps to make his home more environmentally-friendly last June, Gore devours an average of 17,768 kWh per month"
-Bill
Maybe, but you're a warmingist, so therefore your opinion has no value.
Thanks, Rich
Granting the tiny residual bit of working brain mass that you have left, I don't suppose you've got the intellectual capacity accomodate notions that are complicated enough to be even half right.
-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
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