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Jan 10, 2007 10:44

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pa_newt January 10 2007, 21:26:14 UTC
Have you ever watched "The Gods Must be Crazy"? It is a movie about an African tribesman that gets hit on the head by a Coke bottle that was thrown out of a bush plane. None of his tribe have any idea what the item is but they figure it must have been accidentily dropped by the gods and they feel that it must be returned to the gods to avoid their wrath. Your giraffe story reminded me of that movie.

suggestion for climate change debate:
To prove that human activity was responsible for climate change (as opposed to natural changes) someone would need to have climate data from a period prior to human activity. Since accurate weather data has only been kept for the last 100 or so years, and since scientists suspect that weather cycles could be up to 200 years long, it is too early to know if current weather paterns are part of a natural cycle or an anomoly. (I read about the weather cycles - based on farming records - a couple of years ago so you would need to confirm the origin.
One other source - The Economist magazine devoted an entire issue to climate change last fall. It was very unbiased in presenting both sides of the argument and you might get some ideas there.
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