It's warmer by you? Is it warmer in Vegas or Mailbu? Saying it's warmer so we must do something is ignoring history just like in the 70's when they said it was cold so here comes another ice age. Keyword is another.
The climate changes and it always did and always will. To suddenly say the waters going to rise 20 feet because a divinity school dropout told you so is less than an educated guess. On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: >> Trying to keep emissions at a minimum is smart. Forcing it because it >> felt warmer, but now it doesn't, is not smart. Unless of course you >> want to make a killing from selling useless insurance to suckers. > > It doesn't just feel warmer, it *is* warmer. I don't support emissions > reductions because I'm an altruistic tree-loving hippy. The world will > get along fine without us. Nope, I'm a self-centered arrogant bastard. > I'm accustomed to a certain climate on this planet and the climate for > the last couple thousand years has done pretty well by humans. I'd > rather like to see it continue that way. I don't want to give in to > "natural variations" if it means rapidly rising sea levels, expanded > desertification and vanishing forests. I don't want to see another ice > age either. > > Whether climate change is primarily anthropogenic or primarily caused > by external factors (solar cycles, long term ocean cycles, whatever > your favorite explanation) the fact remains that the climate is > changing in ways which are not beneficial to our species and the way > we have set things up. It looks like we have options at our disposal > to help alleviate some of that change. So I think it behooves us to > take a broader view and take the measures necessary in order to try > and bring more of our own destiny under our control. If we put > measures in place to be able to strongly regulate humanities emissions > of CO2 (and related gasses) then we have a powerful tool at our > disposal. We can increase emissions in the future if we realize that > its prudent, we can decrease them further if we find that it is > prudent. Either way, we have more control than we have now. > > Self-centered, self interested, me first, conservative thinking here. > Get what you can under control now, do it in a way that encourages > innovation in the marketplace, continue to explore our options. > > Judah > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:283061 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
