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- From: dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Flash! Environmentalists switch off Earth's volcanoes
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.231350.29522@vexcel.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 23:13:50 GMT
- References: <1992Dec16.051524.2786@seq.uncwil.edu> <1992Dec17.025705.24412@cbnewse.cb.att.com> <1992Dec18.010420.17690@seq.uncwil.edu>
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- >harryo@cbnewse.cb.att.com (harold.r.holm) writes:
- >
- >>Well, now you seem to be calming down a bit and resuming your erstwhile
- >>more rational debate mode, at least (from what I've seen from your
- >>previous postings). Anyway, I know that there have been other volcanoes
- >>erupting in this century. There was somewhat of a bang from Mt. St.
- >>Helens in 1980....and another, wasn't it down in Mexico, a couple years
- >>later? And going back to your more that 100 years, didn't a Mt. Krakatoa
- >>get a bit upset in the latter part of the 19th century? Geologic time
- >>frames? Seeming that is within the scope of some 3-4 billion years, I'd
- >>say only about 100 doesn't quite qualify....yet you curiosly use that
- >>amount to assert unbridled, long-term global warming without end. Why?
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- All volcanic eruptions are not the same. Its not just the intensity that
- varies. Some blast a lot of material into the air while others pour out
- a lot of magma, without much of the atmospheric effect that Pinatubo has
- had. Mt St Helens had huge ash flows into the surrounding forests but
- did not expel much matter into the atmosphere.
- >
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