May I draw peoples attention to a couple of points. 1: Global warming is definitely taking place. There can be no doubt over this
2: There is absolutely no smoking gun suggesting it is our fault I'm happy to accept that we would be irresponsible to ignore the phenomena and we should take steps to minimise our environmental impact. It's just that the real cause of global warming is likely many, at least several independent factors. Our carbon footprint may not be the main one. To emphasise this, indulge me and imagine the situation around the 17th century as we entered the Maunder Minimum period. What would the scientists and politicians be suggesting as world temperatures plummeted by several degrees in a couple of decades? BURN EVERYTHING, INCREASE CO2 OUTPUT. This was a natural process that centuries later we cannot understand or fully explain. There are higher processes at work. (And don't get me onto reduced particulate pollution, raised oceanic volume, population levels, and atmospheric consequences of cheaper air travel. Prior to 1970s there was no discernable trend at all, despite over a hundred years of industry and a couple of major wars. All this current scaremongering does is give politicians an excuse to further raise my taxes "for my own good".) The current attitude is not science and the people whose jobs it is to do it should know better. Rob McC --- Darren Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:03:19 -0400, you wrote: > > > > > >Does anyone else get that "deja vous" feeling? > > > >It wasn't long ago when the planet was in panic > from the "experts" > >prediction about the approaching doom of Y2K - > toasters refusing to toast, > >and planes falling from the sky... > > > >A lot of money was made by some back then! > > The Y2K meltdown didn't happen BECAUSE of the money > poured into it-- thousands > of programmers spending millions of man-hours > rewriting code and replacing > hardware to the tune of billions of dollars. The > Y2K non-event was a success > story of things done right. > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
