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Global Warming - From Inside the Globe

Posted by michael on from the crispy-on-the-outside dept.

Bill Kendrick writes "The National Post reports that a team of American and Canadian researchers has found evidence of real global warming: the temperature of the Earth's crust is increasing at a remarkable rate. What's really interesting is that heat absorbed by rocks slowly permeates into the earth. By boring holes in the ground, they can tell how hot the earth was years ago, in a 'reading tree rings' fashion."

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  1. Re:Global Warming isn't a problem by guygee · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "We are not going to destroy the planet by global warming. The earth has endured a great deal of meteorological change and life goes on. "

    A little George Carlin quote seemed appropriate here:

    "...there is nothing wrong with the planet. Nothing wrong with the
    planet. The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are fucked. Difference. Difference.
    The planet is fine. Compared to the people, the planet is doing great. Been
    here four and a half billion years. Did you ever think about the
    arithmetic? The planet has been here four and a half billion years. We've
    been here, what, a hundred thousand? Maybe two hundred thousand? And we've
    only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over two hundred years.
    Two hundred years versus four and a half billion. And we have the CONCEIT
    to think that somehow we're a threat? That somehow we're gonna put in
    jeopardy this beautiful little blue-green ball that's just a-floatin'
    around the sun?

    The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of
    things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics,
    continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic
    reversal of the poles...hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by
    comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide
    fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages...And we think some plastic
    bags, and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The
    planet...the planet...the planet isn't going anywhere. WE ARE!

    We're going away. Pack your shit, folks. We're going away. And we won't
    leave much of a trace, either. Thank God for that. Maybe a little
    styrofoam. Maybe. A little styrofoam. The planet'll be here and we'll be
    long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological
    mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet'll shake us off like a bad
    case of fleas. A surface nuisance."