Date:         Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:05:27 +1200
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Re: OT Hurricanes--really an accident?
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>You betcha there is a self regulating system at work. The totallity of
>our planet is nothing more that a very complex system in equilibrium,
>and it is drriven by solar energy. The single thing that is
>unprecedented in history is the rise of humans and their ability to
>impact that system in equilibrium. One of the features about
>equilibriums is that when you put pressure on it in one place, it
>self-adjusts to accomodate for the added pressure. It is automatic and
>it is physical. The consequences can be devastating for living things.
>But rest assured that the reaction of nature to what we are doing to the
>planet is normal, expected, and in time will bring things back in
>balance. Not balance as we want it, but balance as nature demands it.
>And she won't give living things any consideration in the process.
>Mother Natures  attitude is " bend with the changes, or break". no in
>betweens.

In actuality there is no such thing in nature as "equilibrium".
Instead there is a constant disequilibrium, always teetering one way
or the other.

Global warming is not scientifically PROVEN, and even if it is
happening, so what? We have NO idea why it's happening. One thing
geology tells us is that climate is not in equilibrium... it's always
swinging. If it's warming now, it's not doing anything it hasn't
already done many of times since life evolved. What we have to be
even more careful of is not to cut greenhouse gas emissions too
much... precipitating a major glaciation would make a 100m rise in
sealevel (with associated superstorms) look like paradise.

>If we are to survive as a species, we had better get smart and yeild to
>the lessons being taught, or we may make like the dinasaurs and simply
>disappear.

The dinosaurs didn't disappear. They are still with us, and are by
far the most successful of all land vertebrates... the birds.
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut

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