So Platt all bets are off - therefore do nothing ? Of all the "wrong" uncertain things to do is do nothing the least risky, the least uncertain ?
(What about meteor avoidance measures - say ? Find a new planet maybe ? Stick out heads in the sand ? It'll be alright on the night ?) Just trying to get the measure of your fatalism. Ian On 2/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting ian glendinning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Platt ? You said to Mark > > "For the same reason we can't be sure that [xxxx] won't bring on > > a period of global [warming / cooling], as was widely predicted by > > scientists in the 70's." > > > > So I asked > > > > So Platt, recognising this "uncertainty", what do you (as an > > > > individual) plan to do, whose advice to you plan to take, on what > > > > basis will you make your decisions ? > > > > > > > > Or are all bets off, until you are sure ? > > > > Ian > > Thanks for the context. As far as I'm concerned, all bets are off. Predicting > global climate change has no record of being accurate. Seems to me the chances > of being wiped out by a meteor are greater than global warming. At least there > is some evidence of that causing a big extinction in the past. But, I could be > wrong. > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > moq_discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
