YAMB

July 31st, 2004 | by Craig |

Through the dirty back channels of the Internet, I have found a YAMB at DarkCreek.

  1. 8 Responses to “YAMB”

  2. By david on Jul 31, 2004 | Reply

    Whoa — I just found him, too, via a comment he left on my site. Looks like he’s part of the Billings Brigade!

  3. By Chuck Rightmire on Jul 31, 2004 | Reply

    Once again ignorance rears it’s ugly head: what’s a YAMB?

  4. By Craig on Jul 31, 2004 | Reply

    Chuck–

    YAMB = “Yet Another Montana Blogger”

    When you see stuff with the dashed underline, you can hold your mouse over it, and it will give you the definition.

    :)

  5. By Chuck Rightmire on Jul 31, 2004 | Reply

    Thanks Craig. (I thought I said this earlier).

  6. By Chuck Rightmire on Aug 2, 2004 | Reply

    Craig, I was looking back at some of my old posts, out of boredom or something, and found a point I wanted to take up with you about global warming: We actually have thousands of years of records from things like ice cap cores and sea bottom drillings. The Tuvalu link on my post gives a pretty good summary of things I’ve read in my science magazines. What we have now are some of the warmest years in millenia.

  7. By Craig on Aug 3, 2004 | Reply

    Chuck–

    I read that article. It was very interesting.

    I’ve never said that I doubt that there is global warming — there is plenty of evidence to suggest that it exists.

    I’m just not ready to take it as an article of faith that it is entirely caused by humans.

  8. By Lightfoot on Aug 3, 2004 | Reply

    along this same vein is an interesting article that I assume is the basis for ‘The Day After’ movie that came out recently. According to the temperature graph, things have been fairly calm over the last 10,000 years compared to the previous ice cycle, where it looks as if there were massive temp fluxes.

    Article

  9. By Chuck Rightmire on Aug 3, 2004 | Reply

    They may have been mild but there have been temperature fluctuations during the last 1000 years that have been significant. There was a time when it was possible in about 1100 to grow grapes outside in England. There was also a time, when ergot ran rampant in Europe that coincides with a melting of the glaciers far back into the mountain valleys. About 900-1000 CE, Bishop Brendan reached the New World and the Vikings settled Greenland. Then came a little ice age in which Europe shivered, just before, I believe, the middle of the millenium and the center of this country went into a major drought that last 400-500 years. There was also a mild cold snap in the early part of the 19th Century. The movie the Day After Tomorrow (Not the post-nuclear war tv film of the same name of a century and a half ago, it seems) is based on a speculation that the melting Greenland ice cap could put so much fresh water into the northern seas that it could shut down a salt water recycling current and the Gulf Stream, for which most of the eastern U.S., Europe and Britain depend to be livable. That could also be an effect of Global Warming. Also, Craig, more and more scientists have signed on to the belief that humans are abetting global warming, even if only as much as the straw that broke the camel’s back. Sorry to take up so much space.

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