Comments on: Did they have global warming 5,000 years ago? Why couldn’t they prevent it (like we’re doing)?

By: pegminer

pegminer — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:49:59 +0000

What part of

don’t you understand? You have lifted a copyrighted article verbatim for an obviously rhetorical question.
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By: beren

beren — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:01:59 +0000

Evidence of previous climate changes does not mean man cannot have an influence on the climate.
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LOGIC

By: ?

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:34:59 +0000

This fits with some other geographical material I have seen quoted from many sources over the last 50 years. One of them was from a novel showing the earth toppling and the poles radically changing position every so many thousand years. This has been well disproved, but it made interesting reading at the time and mention of this was one of his points of reasoning was that the pole had once been located in the great depression between Libya and Egypt. From that he pointed out that while the ice melted it would have made the area that is no desert fertile.

Historical and scientific facts can and are interpreted in many ways, some with a skeptical view and others with a wishful fantastical view such as the story of one famous Scotch nobleman of Norman French ancestry and his adventures in the North Atlantic around the year 1400.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Sinclair

Legend says he visited north America and constructed the trap on an island there where the Templar treasure was buried but there is no proof of that. What is know though is his fleet pulled off the Viking survivors from the Greenland farms that were no longer able to grow food to live off of as the climate cooled down to the little ice age that lasted from about 1350 until 1850, about 500 years of icy cold climate world wide that has not really ended yet as we have still to return to the warm climate of the medieval optimum.

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By: Randall E

Randall E — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:46:59 +0000

Usually climate change occurs because of natural factors.

This time around, there are people who, in order to justify dramatic increases in the scope and scale of government control of our everyday lives, from our commutes to the way we heat and light our homes, insist that "this time it’s different."

There’s no direct PROOF that "this time it’s different" – they just SAY it. Over and over again. As if repeating it enough times were a replacement for proof.

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By: jenandako

jenandako — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:31:59 +0000

I agree with most of these answers, yes it is Mother Nature and yes, it is a natural occurrence to have climate changes. However, 5000+ years ago there were no smoke stacks, cars with exhausts, power plants and the like adding to it...
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By: Boatman1

Boatman1 — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:04:59 +0000

It’s called CLIMATE change——– good old Mother Nature at work eliminating various species…………
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By: mr p

mr p — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:54:59 +0000

who are we to say that right now, in 2008, the earth's temperature is perfect, and we should try to make it stay at this temp.
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By: vicinic

vicinic — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:29:59 +0000

WE ARE NOT PREVENTING GW.
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By: Dana1981, Master of Science

Dana1981, Master of Science — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:17:59 +0000

Usually climate changes are caused by natural factors. This time is different. See the link below for details.
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http://greenhome.huddler.com/wiki/global-warming-and-climate-change-causes

By: richard b

richard b — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:08:59 +0000

the climate patterns on this earth have changes many times over the eons, and will continue to change. understand also that global climate change is a natural event and man can do nothing to change it. to suggest otherwise is the height of arrogance.
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