"Florida" <demeter547opine@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Jerry Okamura wrote:

What is the "threat" of global warming, do you know?

In the opinion of climate scientists, a few of the effects of this
process are those in the article below. Sadly for all of us, the use
of a tentative word like "threat" is has been superceded by events:

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060722/1063102.asp

Warming, wildfires linked, say scientists

By CHARLES J. HANLEY, Associated Press
7/22/2006

Scientists worldwide are watching temperatures rise, the land turn dry
and vast forests go up in flames.

The problem with this statement is that throughout the history of earth,
temperature have risen over a period of time, and tempertures have dropped
over a period of time. And man made influcences are only a relatively
recent phenomena in the life cycle of earth, up to this time. So, it
seems to me, the question is, is the recent short term rise in temperature
a result of human influence, or simply the normal cycle that has been
experienced over the life cycle of earth and is the human influence large
enough to really change the earths climate.

In Siberia and the Canadian Rockies, in southern California and
Australia, researchers find growing evidence tying an upsurge in
wildfires to climate change, an impact long predicted by global-warming
forecasters.

What has the "upsurge" in wildfires got to do with climate change? Are
the "wildfires" the result of lightening, or as a direct result of man.