"Sum Ting Wong" wrote in message
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On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:15:18 -0700, sandy
wrote:

There have been a flurry of internet links, the last few days,
to a series of stories about the announcement of a
new global warming model that essentially concludes
we've already past an unstoppable tipping point.

Standing near the Great Lakes when the glaciers were receeding, some
folks would lament the global warming taking place and rail at the CO2
being released from campfires of primitive man.

Standing near the Great Lakes when the glaciers were receding would have
left the survivors with a host of more immediate and pressing
laments......and little time in which to indulge them.

Wolfgang
who, it must be admitted, derives but cold comfort from the realization that
some things never change.