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<p><a href="http://bblmedia.com/sports/extreme_photorgapher_grand_canyon_jump.html">http://bblmedia.com/sports/extreme_photorgapher_grand_canyon_jump.html</a></p>
<p>﻿Hans van de Vorst photo</p>
<p><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=guaranteed-global-warming-with-existing-fossil-fuel-infrastructure">Scientific American asks</a> :</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;"><em>How Much Global Warming Is Guaranteed Even If We Stopped Building Coal-Fired Power Plants Today? &#8230;. </em></p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;"><em>we are rapidly approaching a point of no return, cautions climate modeler Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution for Science&#8217;s Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University</em></p>
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<p>Sounds scary. But the geologic record provides no support for his claim. During the late Ordovician, CO2 levels were 10X current values, and there was an ice age.</p>
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<p><a href="http://ff.org/centers/csspp/library/co2weekly/2005-08-18/dioxide_files/image002.gif">http://ff.org/centers/csspp/library/co2weekly/2005-08-18/dioxide_files/image002.gif</a></p>
<p>The real point of no return is when you can&#8217;t see past your own unsupportable belief system.</p>
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