> Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 18:46:55 -0700
> From: bost...@tasmail.com
> To: austpacwx@googlegroups.com
> Subject: [austpacwx] Re: Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh

> G'day Shane and All,

> I fully agree with Shane's opening statements - I think climate change is a natural part of life. Just looking at the daily weather patterns shows us that nothing is a 'given' - the weather is always changing, why wouldn't that happen on a larger scale over hundreds and even thousands of years? I feel "Global Warming" is a political issue not a real scientific one. How many times do we hear people saying it's never been this...'cold', 'wet', 'hot', 'windy' and so on when the real records show that it's nothing new, just rare. It seems to me that most 'uninformed' people, (who don't dig out the truth for themselves), think their little experience on this rock is all that counts, when in reality it's just their 'experience' in a certain, rather tiny, time frame - not sure if all that make sense? But I think politicians are using that short-sighted "fear" to push the, (in my opinion), false man-made warming message for an agenda, which may not be fully understood until too late. (?)

> Enjoy!

> Regards,

> Andrew

> On Monday, May 05, 2008 at 09:06:20 AM, austpacwx@googlegroups.com wrote:

> > To begin with, 'Global Warming' was and always will be a sham. The  

> > correct term is 'Global Climate Change', meaning the mean surface  

> > temperature of the planet is continually changing, and it will  

> > continue to change no matter what we do. Global Climate Change  

> > doesn't just take into account the warming of the planet, but also  

> > the cooling of the planet. In my opinion, an ice age, or an extensive  

> > period of colder than normal surface temperatures, is just around the  

> > corner.

> > The definition of an Ice Age is below:

> > "An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of  

> > the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in an expansion of  

> > continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers."

> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Vostok-ice-core-petit.png

> > The above image shows a global cycle in ice core Temperatures in  

> > Antarctica. Noting we are currently at a high, with previous years  

> > peaking then quickly dropping off. I believe we are at the peak, and  

> > will start to drop off soon.

> > Any constructive comments are welcome

> > Regards,

> > ShaneE

> > On 05/05/2008, at 6:11 AM, Chas Osborn wrote:

> > > Check the forum as well.

> > > Phil Chapman is a geophysicist and astronautical engineer who lives  

> > > in San Francisco. He was the first Australian to become a NASA  

> > > astronaut

> > > http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=7295&page=1

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