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First off, I have no doubt that global warming is a fact. But, considering that the glaciers that once covered most of North America were seriously melted before mankind learned how to make fire, I do doubt that blaming it all on un-natural causes is anything more than Ermal whining, "Did I do that?". Mankind claiming to cause global warming is nearly as big an ego trip as assuming that the universe rotates around the earth. Let's face it, there have been some really big temperature swings on this planet over the millenia and the most we could do is help it along just slightly.



Greybeard,

How are things going down in Clovis? My GF in Albuquerque says they have been getting rain. Is that true for you?

I like your argument, but let me make a point. When the first explorers went onto the high plains, they found 60 million buffalo and the numbers seemed endless. It took from the 1840s to the 1880s to hunt them almost to extinction.

The Great Plains looked to be an unconquerable desert to the first migrants, but by the beginning of the 20th Century, the plains were completely plowed under.

The first loggers in the North Woods saw the pine forests to extend forever, but it took from the end of the Civil War until 1917 to cut down the last stand of virgin white pines.

Many things seem boundless, but man is very capable of finding the limits.

Best regards sir.

I was born a long ways from where I was supposed to be. - Bob Dylan