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Man doesn’t influence climate change
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Dec. 11, 2009 11:46 pm
It looks like the wheels are coming off the scam of man-made global warming. Some “scientists” have been caught lying about the numbers. They have gone to great lengths to discredit the dissenters because they disagreed with the idea that man caused global warming.
In the Nov. 29 paper, the article of the California scientists gives it away in the third paragraph. Seems dry spells occurred during a climate warm-up that started about 15,000 years ago. That is the ice age we are still coming out of. At that time it extended into what are now the tropics. Hawaii was covered. About 10,000 years ago, you could walk between Maui and Lanai. Rising oceans are nothing new, it seems.
Don't forget that in the 1980s, people with the same agenda were predicting that we were going into another ice age. Whatever happens, man will just be along for the ride. We don't influence it one way or the other.
Ron Augustine
Hiawatha
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