So, has Bush seen An Inconvenient Truth yet?

So, has Bush seen An Inconvenient Truth yet?

Too many graphs. A certain preteen I know fell asleep halfway through. If Bush is anything like a preteen, and this would not surprise me, he will too.

Maybe the rest of your fell asleep during Climatology 4 Dummies class, so here it is one more time:

"What the record shows is that it was a period of intense instability. The temperature did not rise slowly, or even steadily; instead, the climate flipped several times from temperate conditions back into those of an ice age, and then back again. Around fifteen thousand years ago, Greenland abruptly warmed by sixteen degrees in fifty years or less. In one particularly traumatic episode some twelve thousand years ago, the mean temperature in Greenland shot up by fifteen degrees in a single decade.

"If we go back farther still, the picture is no more comforting. Even as much of Europe and North America lay buried under glaciers, the temperature in Greenland was oscillating wildly, sometimes in spikes of ten degrees, sometimes in spikes of twenty. In an effort to convey the erratic nature of these changes, Richard Alley, a geophysicist who is leading a National Academy of Sciences panel on abrupt climate change, has compared the climate to a light switch being toyed with by an impish three-year-old."

(From 'ICE MEMORY,' The New Yorker, by ELIZABETH KOLBERT, 7 January 2002. Note that the climate change discussed was pre-industrial, & even preceeded Al Gore's trashing of the planet via the thousands of gallons of jet fuel he burned while flying Kyoto.)

Global Warming is really better described as Radical Global Temperature Oscillations and can include both general temperature increases over a short (geological) period of 10-20 years with some 2-5 year drops or raises in temperature of up to 10 degrees.

Basically put, it represents the increased instability of the global circuits due to increased energy input into the system, and is usually accompanied by a lot of really fun hurricanes, massive fish kills, and crop failures.

Enjoy!