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Old 05-01-2007, 00:46 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Actually we don't, if you understand nonlinear systems.

And if you think about every time they promised you good weather and you ended up without an umbrella in the rain.
I've said it before - the climate is not a linear system. We can-not- take a look at the blueprints and say that someone is right or wrong.
Orbital mechanics, axis progression, continental drift, solar irradiation, and all the rest of the little things that have gone into climactic cycles for the last gajillion years. We know the broad patterns. And until someone comes up with a mechanism that survives a real test, we don't know anything about anything else.

Climate changes. That's what we know.

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