The other thing I know is that we are seeing very clear evidence, especially in the Arctic, of warming. So, does that mean that I would say its going to be even warmer 10 years from now, 20 years from now, 30 years from now? It sure looks like it, but who knows. The problem is that all else is not equal and you really dont know whats going to change next. But it does look like its going to get warmer, just like its a good bet that the stock replica Rolex Datejusts watches market in the long term is going to continue to get higher and higher. You actually mention that were at the tail end of the Pleistocene Ice Age, right?Well, I do that to get people thinking about it. Really, most geologists would say, Bill, thats not really right. The Pleistocene ended 10,000 years ago. Were in the Holocene.
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The problem with that is that the Holocene, the only reason we have a Holocene is because human beings appeared and started agriculture about 10,000 years ago. So when people were defining the geologic epics, it was a time when people were much more anthropocentric. So they sort of said, well, humans appeared on the scene, so lets call this the Holocene instead of the Pleistocene. But geologically, nothing had changed. We were still in an interglacial Chopard replica watches period of the Pleistocene. And I would argue that were still in an interglacial period of the Pleistocene. In fact, when I was a kid in the 1970s, people were talking about the coming ice age. And what they meant by that is that we were due, if you look at the series of ice ages that came and went through the PleistoceneI should say the series of glaciationsthere were four of them.
