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On Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:12:30 +0000
Mitchell Holman <noemail@aol.com> wrote:

> "Dr. Rocktor" <drr@in.valid> wrote in
> news:20251210115911.7ebfd2b7@z-z:
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> > On Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:27:27 +0000
> > Mitchell Holman <noemail@aol.com> wrote:
> >  =20
> >> JTEM <jtem01@gmail.com> wrote in
> >> news:10hb15v$1a61s$2@dont-email.me:=20
> >> > On 12/9/25 10:43 PM, Dhu on Gate wrote:
> >> >    =20
> >> >> On the other hand, AGW might not be a bad idea.
> >> >> I grew up listening to a Paleo Botanist maunder
> >> >> on about climate change, which is REAL.  The last
> >> >> 3mil years have been *cooler* and *drier* than normal
> >> >> for this planet's biology.    =20
> >> >=20
> >> > We're inside of an ice age.
> >> >=20
> >> > Approximately 3 million years ago, and through the process of
> >> > plate tectonics, the Isthmus of Panama formed. This changed
> >> > the circulation of ocean water over the globe. Most of the
> >> > sun's energy falls along the equator and then is distributed
> >> > around the globe via currents...
> >> >=20
> >> > It took hundreds of thousands of years but eventually deep
> >> > ocean temperatures fell significantly and we were inside of
> >> > a new ice age:  The Quaternary Period.
> >> >=20
> >> > At present, the Quaternary ice age is characterized by a
> >> > glacial/interglacial cycle. The glacial periods are what
> >> > people MISTAKENLY think of as ice ages. The interglacials
> >> > are exactly as they sound -- a warm period between two
> >> > glacial periods.
> >> >=20
> >> > The interglacial we all live inside is call the Holocene.
> >> >=20
> >> > The Holocene is NOT a particular warm interglacial. It's
> >> > actually cool. It's several degrees C below the last
> >> > interglacial, the Eemain, and sea level is approximately
> >> > 16 feet lower.
> >> >=20
> >> > The Holocene is due to end. The Holocene is overdue to
> >> > end!  And, no, not because of Gwobull Warbling. It was
> >> > already overdue to end in Roman times... pre Roman times!
> >> >    =20
> >>=20
> >>=20
> >> The GOP Climate Change Playbook: =20
> >=20
> > Why are you incapable of addressing actual scientific data and
> > observations? =20
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>    Since when do the climate change=20
> deniers care about scientific data?


<sigh...>

Communicating with low wattage partisan polemicists is so tiring.

https://www.nas.org/blogs/press_release/estimated_40_percent_of_scientists_=
doubt_manmade_global_warming

Asked what he would like to see happen in regard to public opinion and poli=
cy on climate change, Singer replied,

I would like to see the public look upon global warming as just another sci=
entific controversy and oppose any public policies until the major issues a=
re settled, such as the cause. If mostly natural, as NIPCC concludes, then =
the public policies currently discussed are pointless, hugely expensive, an=
d wasteful of resources that could better be applied to real societal probl=
ems.

NIPCC is the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, another=
 group established by Singer. In 2009 NIPCC published Climate Change Recons=
idered,an 880-page report on scientific research that contradicts the model=
s of man-made global warming. Singer believes that global warming exists bu=
t that human contributions to it are minimal. In the interview Singer said =
he believed his efforts in the last twenty years had been successful in dis=
proving the notion that =E2=80=9Cthe science is settled.=E2=80=9D

Singer continues his work in the sciences, focusing lately on geophysical r=
esearch and the Earth=E2=80=99s atmosphere. He is professor emeritus of env=
ironmental science at the University  of Virginia, and he was the founding =
Dean of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences at the Universit=
y of Miami (1964-1967) and the Director of the Center for Atmospheric and S=
pace Physics University of Maryland (1953-1962).