Osprey - 8-30-2011 at 09:41 AM
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The TV show about the wobble was revealing in other unexpected ways. Enter Global Warming and Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
I loved to watch Regis Philbin throw out the questions on the popular TV show. All the contestants had been tested and vetted and were found to be
presentable, English capable and of average or above intelligence. Time and time again young (30s) contestants were asked questions about recent
history – questions about Prohibition for example might stump them and bring forth laughter from them and the host “Well, you wouldn’t know that, you
weren’t even born then.” As though the world would forgive their arrogance for being so self absorbed things that happened on this earth before they
were born did not warrant notice.
Now comes the Global Warming ideas. Let’s go back to the Sahara desert during the good times, 7,000 BC to about 1,100 AD when the great Sahara lakes
held fresh water and life was teeming. Science knows the years by the shoreline, fresh water shells, animal and human remains and artifacts. But the
tens of thousands of Sahara dwellers could not measure the changes – even if they could, they had no way to send the message into the future or mark
what they observed about the past. A father could tell his great grandson “There used to be a little less water” but if that change took 3,000 years
he could not tell his 90,000th grandson (that many generations @ about 30 years each) that things were changing.
Like many areas in North America, the Sahara still holds vast underground lakes of fresh water we now call Fossil Water. If modern man sucks that up
(like we do in CC not far from La Paz) it will not recharge to his liking --- it may take another 21,000 years (it may take thousands, millions of
those cycles to put it back like it was stored). Those kinds of warnings by the Global Conservation folks are well founded. Science is getting its
arms around the cycles now and we will soon have definitive answers to questions about man and Global Warming.
Now, if somebody will just come up with a way to make new, cheap, quick fossil fuel I’ll feel a helluva lot better about the whole scheme of things.
Sahara lakes & climate
bajadave1 - 8-31-2011 at 06:36 AM
That was a very interesting show. Also that the space shuttle and ground penetrating radar were instrumental in the discoveries. Too bad, I'll miss
the shuttles. hate to think about the USA paying the Russians to deliver people to the ISS. Amazing.
Dave