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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (310881)11/16/2006 2:41:07 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) of 1577020
 
CJ, > I am not sure what you mean by this. Have there been warmer and cooler periods? Yes. Does that mean it constantly shifts? No.

What you described is what I call a continually-shifting equilibrium. I think you've exaggerated the examples, but either way, the environment is not something that is hanging in the balance. Instead, it's a system whose equilibrium point shifts one way or the other in response to pressures and stimuli.

> If it doesn't solve the problem in toto, it isn't worth doing at all?

Let me put it this way. Some people think that the threat of terrorism is highly exaggerated, that you're more likely to get killed in a car crash or by the influenza virus. Yet we spend hundreds of billions of dollars fighting a war on terrorism and beefing up homeland security. Would you consider that a waste?

That's the way I think about global warming. I don't deny its existence, but I don't think the effects are going to be all that bad, certainly not nearly enough to justify huge shifts in lifestyle and the associated headaches.

Or to put it another way, what would be cheaper? Trying to prevent the effects of global warming, or adapting to said effects? We have to adapt to the changing weather and environment all the time (e.g. Katrina). Nothing new there, even when you take global warming into account.

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