[Vision2020] "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"

[Pat Kraut]

As those bogs deteriorate we will learn so much more about the what the last ice age covered. I would think that the researchers would be out there in droves finding all the stuff that got covered. Isn't this near or in the area where they have found tropical forests. While the changes in our climate are going to require changes in our lives the knowledge we will gain is going to be enormous. If one is truly into investigation of the earth and not just wanting everything to stay the same on a spinning, changing planet. I will be moving to where the weather is much the same as it here during my lifetime. Who knows it may well be Indonesia!
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tbertruss at aol.com 
  To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 3:32 PM
  Subject: [Vision2020] "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"



  Dear Fellow Oil Hogs-

  "Within a century the melting could lead to summertime ice-free ocean conditions not seen in the area in a million years, the group said Tuesday."

  Above quote from this web link:

  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9053898/

  Global warming?  Just a questionable theory, like evolution!  There are too many gaps in the fossil record to really say for sure for the heck happened!  And don't forget, how do you explain the "evolution" of a complex molecule like DNA?  Those silly scientists!  And the "law of gravity," also, just a theory, supported by sampling a very small percentage of all the possible samples of matter in the billions of light years of volume and billions of years of time passed in our universe...Well, that is, unless the universe popped into existence just a few thousand years ago, which is entirely "possible," with all memories and evidence to indicate otherwise just a fantastic trick to test our faith.  That's what those pre-homo sapien sapien hominid remains (my "mother" Lucy!) from millions of years ago are there for, correct?  

  http://www.asu.edu/clas/iho/lucy.html

  http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pctimes.html

  What do these elitist scientists know, anyway?  Why, they have no "absolute proof" that suddenly gravity will not suddenly weaken, that evolution resulted in human intelligence, nor that the Earth will not soon become colder, making a fool of those who think the best scientific evidence indicates major climate change will likely kick humanity's ass in the next century or two, caused in large part by human activity.

  I hope "intelligent design" is true, in some sense.  Then perhaps whatever or whoever is behind "intelligent design" can now induce the advent of "intelligence" on Earth.  As implied by the comedy act once done by Tily Tomlin, "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe," whether "intelligence" exists seems open to question.  Current human responses from the most powerful in the bastions of  political/economic/ideological hegemony to the coming crisis caused by melting ice raising ocean levels appears to indicate minds ruled by instinctual short sighted immediate gain, a characteristic of "lower" life forms, rather than leaving behind a better world for future generations not yet born.

  Now, on to my fire breathing CO2 belching dragon (usually referred to as a "car") to be a good American consumer!

  "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"

  Admiral David G. Farragut Mobile Bay,
  Alabama August 5, 1864.
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  Ted Moffett



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