Re: OT - 2005 Will Probably be Warmest on Record

In article <1cb1o1h42ljr3sr41l89ihtvs6klg78s0e@xxxxxxx>, To-Email-
Use-The-Envelope-Icon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:00:03 GMT, Al <no.spam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >In article <ob2vn1p0m6c8m2b83as0n50eja0ehtph36@xxxxxxx>,
> > Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> On 19 Nov 2005 11:37:34 -0800, Winfield Hill
> >> <Winfield_member@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Jim Thompson wrote...
> >> >>
> >> >> So why do blue-nosed tree-hugging leftist weenies oppose
> >> >> all applications for nuclear plant construction permits?
> >> >
> >> > They don't: along with "blue-nosed tree-hugging leftist weenies"
> >> > that's another of your mean slurs. Oops! I should avoid falling
> >> > into your trap, since I don't admit to being a blue-nosed tree-
> >> > hugging leftist weenie, and can't recall having ever met one --
> >> > I'm not sure exactly such a creature even exists.
> >> >
> >> > Anyway, there are those in favor of and opposed to various non-oil
> >> > alternatives on both sides of the political isle. Here in Mass
> >> > our Republican gov is opposed to wind power offshore on the cape,
> >> > while I and my friends are in favor. Massachusetts and the rest
> >> > of New England have a number of Nuclear plants we rely on each day.
> >> > Many of us, myself included, would like to see more built nearby.
> >>
> >> Out here the Sierra Club is against EVERYTHING.
> >>
> >> If they keep it up sooner or later only the wealthy can afford energy.
> >> Then the fit will REALLY hit the shan.
> >>
> >> ...Jim Thompson
> >
> >When all the icecubes in my drink melt, it starts to warm up.
> >
> >Why should the earth be any different? Are all the ice cubes (glaciers)
> >melting? Isn't this just the end of a natural cycle?
> >
> >BTW, now that they have been monitor Mars for a few years, they find it
> >is also warming up. It that our fault too?
>
> The blue-nosed tree-hugging leftist weenie socialists would say that
> it's our fault, somehow ;-)
>
> >Or is there some physical
> >process underway in the solar system we don't understand.
> >
> >Anybody know if the solar contanst is not really constant?
> >
> >Al
>
> It is a well-known fact that the sun is VERY gradually heating up,
> following the standard star cycle. Eventually it will blow...
> millions, maybe billions of years from now.


Most stars are variables. Sol is a quite average star and will go
through many cycles before it gets remotely toasty here. It's just
like kids; they went through phases (some hot and some cold) until
they grow up, get old and die. Suns last longer than sons though.

--
Keith


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