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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (17210)4/27/2006 8:55:34 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 541382
 
Global warming and the greenhouse effect are not "unknown"

No, they aren't. And I agree that anyone who says they don't exist is off base, although not off base in the way a Holocaust denier is off base. Perhaps more an ostrich. Or someone with a selfish agenda. Or stupid, as you suggest.

confused a precise prediction about when during this century the shiite will hit the fan

I don't think it's as clear as you suggest, that all that's missing is this precise timing. We haven't yet defined what's hitting what fan. Nor have we defined what realistically can and should be done about it. What we have is a war between deniers and hysterics. The hysterics get more hysterical due to the confrontations with the stubborn deniers.

I recall the word "catastrophe" used several times during that show. One was in the context of drought someplace in Africa due to the changes in weather patters. There are catastrophes and then there catastrophes. I'm in Tucson at the moment where apparently once there was a rain forest. Apparently at some point the weather patterns changed. Was that a catastrophe? It would be helpful if some folks quit denying and other folks quit calling the loss of beach in South Carolina a catastrophe, either that or give enough room on the stage for the rest of us to talk about what's real, what's preventable, what adaptations are practicable, and what to let go.
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