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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Joe NYC who wrote (122613)8/21/2000 7:23:12 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1571204
 
Jozef and Ali, Thanks for your welcome to the thread. I have been lurking here for a while and I also post on Raging Bull. Thought I would come over here and stir up some trouble.

Both the climate and ecosystems are chaotic systems with a large degree of dynamic stability. It is hard to push them off balance, but human release of CO2 is one way to shift both. Since the climate has a large degree of variability, there was the "Little Ice Age" that caused the abandonment of the Norse Greenland colony and almost caused the failure of the one at Iceland, it is very hard to separate out normal variation from human caused variation. One thing we do know, for the past hundred or so years the climate has been milder than is was in the period that immediately preceeded it. It does look as if we are moving away from that mild period and things are getting rougher. Whether or not it is due to human interaction is something that cannot be proved or disproved with the knowledge we have now.

Personally I think people should try to moderate CO2 and CFCs as much as possible, especially in the wealthier countries. I am ambivalent about government control of this, in principle it sounds good, but it practice it works poorly, the backlash often gets people like George W. put in office...
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