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To: Neocon who wrote (87221)11/19/2004 8:06:05 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 793725
 
Our understanding of both weather and climate, and economics are in many ways less solid than say physics or chemistry. Certain basic principles of each are well understood and supported by a consensus of people working in the field, but how they apply to a specific situation, or what you can predict based on them is less certain. That free trade is generally beneficial, and that a large amount of CO2 has the potential to cause global warming, are both simple, widely accepted ideas that it is unreasonable to dispute. The basic ideas are understood but you can't predict the future to well using them. We don't know what the CO2 being emitted in to the atmosphere will do, and we don't know what economic growth will be like 10 years from now.

Tim
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