Group: humanities.philosophy.objectivism
From: "Matt W. Barrow"
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2008 4:16 AM
Subject: Re: John Stossel talks about Global Warming


"Reggie Perrin" wrote in message
news:fsflfb$gq5$1@vulture.killfile.org...
> Matt W. Barrow wrote:
>>> Increased industrialisation.
>>
>> As opposed to now?
>>
>> Gimme' a break!
>
> No, as opposed to the period prior. The AGW explanation for mid-century
> cooling is that the increased aerosol pollution in the forties and fifties
> outweighed the CO2 forcing. By the seventies and eighties, clean air
> regulations and improved technology had reined in aerosol pollution, and
> CO2 emissions became dominant once more. Make of that what you will.

That theory (actually, assumptions/presumptions) has so many holes...[sigh]

I'll make a paper bottom layer for the bottom of our guinea pigs cage.

Matt
--
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest
complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it
be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they
delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to
others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of
their lives. - Tolstoy


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