Thursday, December 17, 2009

Unstoppable global warming

It's waiting for pick-up after I do my mail-run today. There are probably used copies available for sale, but I like to use the public library when I can, since so many of the books I want to read it doesn't buy.

Author: Singer, S. Fred (Siegfried Fred), 1924-
Title: Unstoppable global warming : every 1,500 years / S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery.
Call Number: 363.73874 Si, 2008 c. 1
Item Class: 28 Day Circ 10 Cent Fine 1002145441
Hold Expiration Date: 26-DEC-2009
Pickup Location Name: (20000) Lane Road

From the Amazon review: "Since the 1,500 year cycle was discovered in the early 1980's it's general characteristics have been confirmed by measurements in: tree rings (living, preserved and fossilized), pollen, coral, glaciers, boreholes, stalagmites, tree lines, and sea sediments. The most recent cycles have been recorded in human history with forced migrations, starvation, and disease during the cold portion of the cycle and greater population, expanded farm land, greater crop variety, and extra building during the warm portion.

The causes of the 1,500 year cycle are not well understood although 600 of them have been identified in the last million years. This permits us to be relatively confident that we have been moving into the warm phase of the cycle for the last 150 years. It also suggests that we may have one or two degrees more warming if we are to get to the typical high of the warm phase."

If believing that man controls the climate is part of your humanist based religion and it gives you comfort and makes you feel powerful, you probably wouldn't consider reading a broad overview or even entertain the thought that you are probably sitting on a spot formerly covered by a glacier. So, go look somewhere else for comfort.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good thing that cycle was discovered in the early 80s. It probably wouldn't see the light of day now.