Comments on: Stone-Age Graveyard in the Sahara Recalls an Era of Lakes and Wetlands http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/14/stone-age-graveyard-in-the-sahara-recalls-an-era-of-lakes-and-wetlands/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day\'s most compelling topics. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:44:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Matthew Humphrey http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/14/stone-age-graveyard-in-the-sahara-recalls-an-era-of-lakes-and-wetlands/comment-page-1/#comment-49889 Matthew Humphrey Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:19:21 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/14/stone-age-graveyard-in-the-sahara-recalls-an-era-of-lakes-and-wetlands/#comment-49889 What an idiotic comment from Michael W. Morgan, above. Just because climates have changed drastically in the distant past, long before the Industrial Revolution, does not invalidate the reality of anthropogenic climate change, today. Obviously there can be more than one cause for warming and desertification. Anyone with even a nodding acquaintance with the Earth's history would already have known that there have been cycles of warming and cooling in the past. What is different about the current situation is that these prior natural events cannot account for the present warming trend and the increasing atmospheric levels of CO2 that are driving it. Human activity is to blame, whether or not the commenter can bring himself to believe it. And then we get the old "environmentalism is a religion" bullshit. It seems as though Morgan is getting his talking points, as well as his scientific "information" from Rush Limbaugh. I don't know anyone who "pray[s] to the priests of the Greenhouse Gas". It's more like recognizing reality, for me, however much I wish it were otherwise. And if we Americans fail to seize the economic opportunities presented by the climate crisis, you can be sure that the Japanese, the Chinese and the Europeans will be glad to take up the slack for us. "How far have we really progressed?" For some of us, not much at all. What an idiotic comment from Michael W. Morgan, above. Just because climates have changed drastically in the distant past, long before the Industrial Revolution, does not invalidate the reality of anthropogenic climate change, today. Obviously there can be more than one cause for warming and desertification. Anyone with even a nodding acquaintance with the Earth’s history would already have known that there have been cycles of warming and cooling in the past. What is different about the current situation is that these prior natural events cannot account for the present warming trend and the increasing atmospheric levels of CO2 that are driving it. Human activity is to blame, whether or not the commenter can bring himself to believe it.

And then we get the old “environmentalism is a religion” bullshit. It seems as though Morgan is getting his talking points, as well as his scientific “information” from Rush Limbaugh. I don’t know anyone who “pray[s] to the priests of the Greenhouse Gas”. It’s more like recognizing reality, for me, however much I wish it were otherwise. And if we Americans fail to seize the economic opportunities presented by the climate crisis, you can be sure that the Japanese, the Chinese and the Europeans will be glad to take up the slack for us.

“How far have we really progressed?” For some of us, not much at all.

]]> By: Michael W. Morgan http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/14/stone-age-graveyard-in-the-sahara-recalls-an-era-of-lakes-and-wetlands/comment-page-1/#comment-15937 Michael W. Morgan Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:44:06 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/14/stone-age-graveyard-in-the-sahara-recalls-an-era-of-lakes-and-wetlands/#comment-15937 I wonder if the people of those cultures were arrogant enough to think they were responsible for the climate change. Obviously, there were far too many factories and powerplants spewing out their greenhouse gasses that caused. Al Gore...where were you then. Seriously there is a aadjunct to this if you think about it. Surely these people thought their gods were punishiing them for some wrong they did. It is a religious thing. How does that differ from the New Religion of today...Enviornmentalism. We pray to the priests of the Greenhouse Gas and sacrifice our economies to end the coming inevitable result of a thermal world. How far have we really progressed? I wonder if the people of those cultures were arrogant enough to think they were responsible for the climate change. Obviously, there were far too many factories and powerplants spewing out their greenhouse gasses that caused. Al Gore…where were you then.
Seriously there is a aadjunct to this if you think about it. Surely these people thought their gods were punishiing them for some wrong they did. It is a religious thing. How does that differ from the New Religion of today…Enviornmentalism. We pray to the priests of the Greenhouse Gas and sacrifice our economies to end the coming inevitable result of a thermal world.
How far have we really progressed?

]]> By: Mame A. Thioye Sall http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/14/stone-age-graveyard-in-the-sahara-recalls-an-era-of-lakes-and-wetlands/comment-page-1/#comment-6332 Mame A. Thioye Sall Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:26:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/14/stone-age-graveyard-in-the-sahara-recalls-an-era-of-lakes-and-wetlands/#comment-6332 it is amazing to discover that the desert of sahara was wet one day, long time ago and people use to live and interact overthere. it is amazing to discover that the desert of sahara was wet one day, long time ago and people use to live and interact overthere.

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