Originally Posted by
HawtPants
i saw this show on discovery about this subject. they went to the artic and dug deep into the ice to pull out layers of snow and counted them kinda like rings on a tree.
there conclusion was that some layers were bigger and smaller than others meaning that the climate for the earth is inconsistent. ie longer summers = hotter with smaller rings and longer winters = cooler with bigger rings.
Exactly, the earth has a natural rise and fall of temperature.
After spending months studying waterway flow charts of the last 300 years for a company I worked with you would notice the same types of changes. When it was a warmer or drier year you had less flow and vice versa for wetter years or heavy snowfall years.
the problem now is we are basically micro-managing these observations where we watch such minute changes happen it ends up setting off alarmists and worst case scenarios throughout the land.
sometimes too much knowledge is a bad thing and it needs to be tempered with a historical view of at least 100 years data to come to a conclusion.
Science is still a guessing game so a difinitive conclusion still has a lot of room for error.