Thursday, September 26, 2013
You're Getting Warm
According to multiple sources ("Science" 2000, Kukla, "Science" 2006, Otto-Bliesner, et al, "Nature" 2000, Cuffey and Marshall), the previous interglacial period (130,000 to 116,000 years ago) was significantly warmer than what we're presently experiencing (2 degrees C warmer at the equator, 6 degrees C warmer at the poles) AND THERE WAS NO MASS EXTINCTION (this, despite the fact that seas levels were 4-6 meters higher) OR RUNAWAY GREENHOUSE EFFECT (CO2 levels were actually quite modest)!!! Nope, just the frigging opposite happened. Tree lines advanced (both in terms of latitude and altitude), vegetation bloomed, and animal life flourished.......................................................................................Of course the most noteworthy event of all that happened during those 14,000 years is staring at us now; a little something called homo sapiens. Yeah, that's right, folks, we were evolving in Eastern Africa....right about that time!!
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Not possible, Will. God created us, the world, the universe, EVERYTHING about 6000 years ago.
Temperature trends affect the ecosystem: beneficial for some
species, harmful to others. IMO,
it is easier to understand such
in increments of a thousand years, rather than our tendency to compare year to year or even generation to generation. As always, there are unanswered and
controversial questions, an interesting one being the beginnings of language, some placing it as early as the times
you mentioned.
Jerry, BB, I saw a Youtube video from the BBC and they had this young-earth creationist named Phil Robinson on. Let's just say that I was flabbergasted and leave it at that.
There is also a big difference between the earth that can support 7+ billion people and the one that can sustain 2 people.
I guess even non-creationists
have unique ideas .
Fears pertaining to population growth go back several centuries (i.e., Thomas Malthus), Jerry. And while, yes, there may be an element of truth to them, the real issue here is poverty. Places like Japan and Singapore are heavily populated and yet they are doing fine, while there are other places in Africa that are sparsely populated and in abject misery. My suspicion is that just as technology has made it possible for the earth to handle a larger population than the past, so, too, the future.
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