Date:         Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:52:36 -0500
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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From:         Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Re: OT Hurricanes--really an accident?
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Agreed in principle. And when gas prices are on the line, I'll buy your
careful approach. But when the cost shifts to human lives, it's time
for action in the form of restraint.
>
> Global warming is not scientifically PROVEN, and even if it is
> happening, so what? We have NO idea why it's happening.

Not altogether true. Just like in plague times, there were people who
knew. they just didn't have the political voice to convince anyone who
mattered.

> One thing
> geology tells us is that climate is not in equilibrium... it's always
> swinging. If it's warming now, it's not doing anything it hasn't
> already done many of times since life evolved.

I'd like to see that evidence, especially as it concerns the water
temperatures in the gulf of mexico.

> What we have to be
> even more careful of is not to cut greenhouse gas emissions too
> much... precipitating a major glaciation would make a 100m rise in
> sealevel (with associated superstorms) look like paradise.

I don't think we need to think too much beyond simply lowering
greenhouse gas output at this point, to cool down what we THINK we've
messed up while we search for answers in a scientific environment
unfettered by politics.

Jim