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Old 12-20-2006, 17:35 PM   #57 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ArmchairGeneral View Post
I think that's kinda his point. Normally, these warming trends might take a few thousand to a few million years to accomplish. The problem with the current warming trend is that it's happening over the course of a century or two. Which may seem like plenty, but geologically or climatologically, it's an instant. Which means the climate, the environment, and humans would have little time to adapt.
But by the same token, the current trend in warming or cooling is a geological instant, which will return to normal in an instant as well. In this case, an instant is like a few decades to a few centuries. The world was cooling for 3 decades from the 40s to the 70s. The it decided to return to normal for the next few decades. All in a blink of an eye.
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