Subj : Re: Forget a hosepipe ban
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Mike Powell
Date : Thu Aug 21 2025 09:21:10

> I think a lot of the Global Warming stuff is being used so we will
> pay more for gasoline, electricity and such without complaint..

> NOTE: I'm not saying Globel Warming is not happening, I question
> whether we caused it or could do anything to stop it seeing as
> it's happened multiple times in the past when there were a lot
> fewer people on earth to create it..

Yeah, I get that.  Use something that has some truth to it in order to
scare us all into doing something "they" (the government, corporations, or
some mix of the two) want us to.  Pretty sure they've tried multiple times
with Global Warming/Climate Change.  It seems to have worked in some
countries/regions, too.

> The world has had a lot more years (twice as many) without polar
> ice caps as with them and 4000 years ago they could grow crops
> in England that it is now too Cold to grow..

> Global warming or natural correction?

The best explanation I have seen was on a PBS special a few years back.
They looked at how the northern regions of Canada, currently mostly frozen,
were once rich with plant life.  They were quick to point out that this was
the case while these lands were mostly in their current position, and not
from back before the continents shifted to where they are now.

They visited several other areas that used to be much different, showing
evidence in the rocks and ice cores of where different cycles began and
ended.  The end conclusion was that the Earth has always had these cycles, but
that the arrival of man (and more specifically, our adoption of fire,
urbanization, and industrialization) has caused these cycles to be more
"compact" -- to change more frequently and with greater speed than they used
to.

I don't find that difficult to believe.

What I do find difficult to believe is when supposedly expert people claim
that shifts that happened *before* the industrial age were mostly/completely
caused by man and not, say, a string of volcanic eruptions (or other
natural phenomenon) that were known to have happened at about the same time.

Mike

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