On Jan 26, 5:02*pm, Rich wrote:

A typo is generally one character, not two.

Maybe new evolution research has meant that the orgin of life has been
more precisely dated, and science now _knows_ it did not happen 2.99
billion, or 3.01 billion, years ago?

Wait a moment. Perhaps it was 300 *million* years in the life of the
planet - because for whatever reason, he avoided delving too deeply
into the Precambrian.

He is also the author of Edwin Hubble: Master of the Nebulae, and his
profession is that of a historian of science.

There's an excerpt he

http://www.2think.org/greenhouse.shtml

The first chapter talks about Fourier and the French Revolution, which
is exciting, but not really germane to the case for global warming -
so this book apparently is using global warming simply as a
springboard to get people interested in science.

John Savard