Re: [asa] Creation Care

Merv,
    To answer that question, take a look at chart number 13 in this
presentation. http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/SierraStorm.09Jan2007.pdf

    Randy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Merv" <mrb22667@kansas.net>
To: "Brent Foster" <bdffoster@charter.net>; <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: [asa] Creation Care

> Of course, at our jobs, keeping up on ASA posts should be an ethical step
> above solitaire!
>
> I'm sure this has been bantered about too, but the thought struck me
> today: What if one of our scientific energy revolution dreams were to be
> suddenly realized? Tomorrow somebody makes cold fusion work -- it really
> works this time and eventually energy becomes so plentiful that all our
> current uses barely scratch its potential. What would THAT do to our
> global warming situation? Being a "greenhouse gas-free" source would, I
> suppose make it an environmental life-saver, but would our wanton use of
> plentiful energy warm our planet just through its direct addition of heat?
> I'm curious, is almost all the anthropogenic effect due to greenhouse
> additions? Or is a significant (or any) bit of it due to direct warming
> effects from added heat itself?
>
> --merv
>
> Brent Foster wrote:
>> I've been following the global warming threads. I was going to post
>> something but then when I checked the list again there had been a couple
>> dozen replies! Don't you people have jobs?!?! :) Anyway, at the risk of
>> saying something that's already been said, my comment is this: I am not
>> very impressed by short term trends. I accept the climatologic data that
>> shows correlations between anthropogenic greenhouse gasses and recent
>> global warming. But our current, larger global warming trend began about
>> 18,000 years ago. What are the odds that an 18,000 year trend will
>> reverse itself just because we stop poisoning the atmosphere? I think
>> global warming is a safe bet. I also don't think there's much we can do
>> about it. I see it as a wildfire that we didn't start and we can't
>> extinguish, although it's probably not smart to pour fuel on it.
>>
>> Brent
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