THAT ONE DEGREE ISN'T HELPING MUCH:

A Mini-Interview With Dennis Avery, Co-Author Of, "Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years." (John Hawkins, 2/08/07, RightWingNews)

Now, how much longer should we expect this global warming cycle to last and how much hotter should we expect it to get?

The typical warming has been 1 to 2 degrees Celsius. Some of them have been a bit warmer than that. The one about 5000 years ago was quite warm. Obviously, all of our wildlife species and plants have been through these cycles before and we haven't studied their coping strategies, but we know they have them because they're here.

And, we can't really predict how long this will last. The 1500 year cycle is very regular during the ice ages and it's less regular during the warmings, but we've probably got several hundred more years of warm, stable, sunny weather and then we'll have another icy age, either a little ice age or a big one, in which case, things will either get quite a bit colder or a whole lot colder and the weather will be cloudy and unstable and people will wish they were living in a warming.

Where are all the global warming kooks when it's time to take our kids to their butt-shriekin' cold ski lessons every week?

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 9, 2007 7:24 AM