Letters to the Editor
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Actually, global warming is complex-
- you are simplistic, A Parent.
Zing!
Anyway. Is that the best you could do? Weak!
You've already had your ass handed to you re: evolution so I shan't retread that old ground.
I shall, however, point out several other mistakes you've made. Modern man has been around for way longer than 2000 years. A quick google (therefore it must be true): we hit the scene about 200,000 years ago.
Although mankind has always exerted changes and pressures on his environment, most of the big changes, global warming wise, have happend within the last 200 or so. And while it is easy to say that 200 years is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction, don't let it fool you. For example- you can live for weeks without food, days without water and minutes without air- you can live without air for a mere FRACTION of time you can without food or water.
I read 'State of Fear'. It was fiction. It has been refutted by the very sources he cites. It was not nearly as good as 'Eaters of the Dead'.
I think it's very sad when a writer loses his edge and has to go for cheap contraversy to sell books. He also believes in magic (read 'Travels').
So, to recap:
'State of Fear'- fiction
The Ward-Hunt Ice-Shelf fragmentaion- fact
C02 levels higher now than they were for thousands of years- fact
Ice melts have an effect on global weather patterns- fact
Northern Hemisphere oceans the warmest they've ever been on record- fact