01-12-2009, 11:06 AM
Thanks for your post on the lost data Helen.
Everyone: I am a dummy when it comes to technical/scientific details so please treat me gently. It seems evident that global warming is happening over an extended period -- witness to this is that in the mid/late 1800's during winter times people use to light large bonfires on the iced-over Thames and huddle around them (no chance of that today -- too much effluence I guess).
So the question has to be, I suppose, is whether what we are witnessing is a natural warming cycle? After all, the UK used to have a tropical climate in the distant past, so it doesn't seem so odd it could revert to that again.
Children's stick-figure sketches in response very welcome. Anything more complicated gets lost in translation.
Everyone: I am a dummy when it comes to technical/scientific details so please treat me gently. It seems evident that global warming is happening over an extended period -- witness to this is that in the mid/late 1800's during winter times people use to light large bonfires on the iced-over Thames and huddle around them (no chance of that today -- too much effluence I guess).
So the question has to be, I suppose, is whether what we are witnessing is a natural warming cycle? After all, the UK used to have a tropical climate in the distant past, so it doesn't seem so odd it could revert to that again.
Children's stick-figure sketches in response very welcome. Anything more complicated gets lost in translation.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14