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Interesting site! And a pleasant idea to veer with the voque and simlpy enjoy the exceptional, summerhot , rainless month of april we are having. Good! A swim and a sunbath without guilt .  One little edited question: [Earth's climate and atmosphere have varied greatly over geologic time. Our planet has mostly been much hotter and more humid than we know it to be today, and with far more carbon dioxide (the greenhouse gas) in the atmosphere than exists today. The notable exception is 300,000,000 years ago during the late Carboniferous Period, which resembles our own climate and atmosphere like no other. ]
I have no notion of all those millions af years , but in the period written about her above, were there humans around or only life forms that could wel support this heat and humidity? Time scale Triassic gives:Dinosaurs,mammals,birds. Mammals being also humans? BTW, the seawater is icy cold,  worth no more than just a dip of the toe.
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I'd sure like to know how they got a 500 year cycle out of the chart on question 8. Unless by cycle they mean half cycle.
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I'd sure like to know how they got a 500 year cycle out of the chart on question 8. Unless by cycle they mean half cycle. And you are most right, Faldage, to question a recurring 500 year cycle based on a single cycle of a 1000 year chart. But you score a niggling point. The point is that for 500 years it was hot, then for 500 years it was cold, and now it is hot again. And as for me I think that Earth's temperature fluctuates and that cold is worse than hot. 
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If they can't get simple arithmetic right why should we trust anything else they have to say?
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On the other hand, Faldage, if someone has his arithmetic right, would that be a reason to trust what he has to say?
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On the other hand, Faldage, if someone has his arithmetic right, would that be a reason to trust what he has to say? Yes, so right you really are, BranShea. The Norsemen in Greenland didn't trust the Inuits because they were smelly, illiterate, devil worshiping savages, and although the Norsemen might have been a little bit smelly too, they refused to learn the skills and methods of hunting seals and whales from the Inuits. Then suddenly the Little Ice Age began and soon all the blue-eyed people died of starvation, and the Inuits, being illiterate, had no choice but to keep on hunting seals and whales as they watched their fat wives get fatter and fatter. Of course that happened 500 years ago, maybe today we can afford to not trust people rather than listen and think about what they have to say. You think?
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On the other hand, Faldage, if someone has his arithmetic right, would that be a reason to trust what he has to say? It does not follow logically from the proposition that if they have the arithmetic wrong you cannot trust what they have to say. That would be the fallacy of denying the antecedent.
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That is wonderfully well and exact put to words of course!
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