Is it global warming or an ice age?

[newbie]

Like I've said a billion times, we'll all be dead of cancer and lack of clean drinking water/soil before we ever get cooked to death.

Uh, would that be skin cancer?

[Canuck E Stan]

According to Al Gore Humans are the cause of Global Warming and the clock is ticking to Dooms Day..

Scientists say Arctic once was tropical

First-of-its-kind core samples dug up from deep beneath the Arctic Ocean floor show that 55 million years ago an area near the North Pole was practically a subtropical paradise, three new studies show.

The scientists say their findings are a glimpse backward into a much warmer-than-thought polar region heated by run-amok greenhouse gases that came about naturally.

Skeptics of man-made causes of global warming have nothing to rejoice over, however. The researchers say their studies appearing in Thursday's issue of Nature also offer a peek at just how bad conditions can get.

"This could actually contribute to push the world to a cooling mode," Brinkhuis said, but only after it got hotter first and then it would take at least 800,000 years to cool back down. It's not something to look forward to, he said.

Maybe Al Gore was right,but put the blame on the right people.

Fred Flinstone and Barney were the cause of global warming with their foot pedal cars and greenhouse gas lifestyle.

Damn that Flinstone.

[Machinations]

One thing I am sure we all agree on: this science is highly unpopular with certain industries. Any fossil fuels-related industry, for starters.

I for one prefer to get my science from independent commissions instead of industry committees. When you remove the industry sycophants from the picture, it becomes evident that the data is there, and that the only disagreements remaining are how this warming trend will affect the globe.

Last year, with global sea waters warming, 1/3 of the known old growth coral in the Caribbean died, en masse. Some of these corals had been around since well before Colombus arrived in America.

Warning signs are adding up. I am hardly optimistic enough to assume that the rich and powerful will do the right thing. That being said, once the science is vindicated, perhaps we can plot a more successful course for the future.