Doktor DynaSoar <targeting@OMCL.mil> wrote in message news:<jsa0vv4jhnlct1rao1cvdmm0jl2vj9819h@4ax.com>...

Global warming? That's NOTHING. A tiny percentage over decades.

How about GLOBAL DIMMING?

The sun is putting out 10% less than it was just 30 YEARS AGO, losing
3% of its luminousity every decade for the last half century.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1108853,00.html

Our children could be living in TOTAL DARKNESS!

The article is intersting. However your statement that "The sun is
putting out...less than it was 30 years ago" is very misleading, in
fact,
false and directly contradicted by the article:

"So what causes global dimming? The first thing to say is that it's
nothing to do with changes in the amount of radiation arriving from
the sun. Although that varies as the sun's activity rises and falls
and the Earth moves closer or further away, the global dimming effect
is much, much larger and the opposite of what would be expected given
there has been a general increase in overall solar radiation over the
past 150 years.

"That means something must have happened to the Earth's atmosphere to
stop the arriving sunlight penetrating. The few experts who have
studied the effect believe it's down to air pollution. Tiny particles
of soot or chemical compounds like sulphates reflect sunlight and they
also promote the formation of bigger, longer lasting clouds. "The
cloudy times are getting darker," says Cohen, at the Volcani Centre.
"If it's cloudy then it's darker, but when it's sunny things haven't
changed much.."

Where's your precious "global warming" THEN?  You'll WISH there was
"global warming" when the glaciers come!

You also seem to be under the mistaken view that global
warming is entirely, or mostly, about global warming. The
unfortuante name "global warming" has stuck (we use it too,
with some qualms) to refer to what is more accurately referred
to as "climate change"

That the mean (average) global temperature goes up by several 
degrees is just one dimension: more extremes of hot AND cold
weahter; more extremes and more frequent extremes of 
dry (drought) AND wet (huge downpours of biblical proportion;
I'm not kidding, see BBC report on 3 days with as much
rain as normally in a month or more) weather; rising sea
levels and flooding; the possibly reduction or even
shut-down of the Gulf stream due to salinity changes
(in turn caused by melting glaciers) which would
radically, radically affect Europe's weather,...europe
is currently "artificially" kept much milder given
it's latitudes, by the gulf stream.. and much more.

There is nothing preventing many or most of these
effects from afflicting us *along with* "solar dimming"
which, the article you posted notes, seems to be
diminishing as air pollution goes down (though the
jury is still out).

more at http://EconomicDemocracy.org/eco/

We virtually never read these newsgroups (alien, paranet, etc)
but found it via search for replies to our articles;
see talk.environment,misc.headlines,alt.activism,talk.politics.misc,soc.culture.usa
for followups.

Thanks for the interesting link, but the above needed to be noted
if we are to inform ourselves so as to advocate for
and promote policies increasing the likelihood of survival

(p.s. we will regret making any comment about aliens, but 
during in where angels fear to tread, here's our throw away
comment: any super-intelligent beings which have
the ability to change things for the better, who are 
insane enough to follow some 'prime directive' and "not
interfere" and just sit by letting humans murder, turture,
destory the environment, etc, are so amoral/immoral
that the desire for contact is between zero to negative)

} >"The human health toll taken by global warming will depend to a large
} >extent on us."
} >
} >"..global warming is projected to double the number of
} >deaths related to heat waves by 2020. [and] prolonged heat can increase smog
} >and the dispersal of allergens, causing respiratory symptoms..."
} >
} >"Malaria has already returned to the Korean peninsula, and parts of
} >the US, southern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union have
} >experienced small outbreaks. Some models project that by the end of
} >this century, the zone of potential malaria transmission will contain
} >about 60 percent of the world's population, up from 45 percent now."
} >
} >From Taipei Times
} >
} >= = =
} >
} >The chilly health impact of global warming
} >
} >Pollution, disease and respiratory distress are some of the less
} >familiar effects of global warming, though the consequences may not be
} >all bad
} >