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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: neolib who wrote (17760)11/27/2007 4:28:06 PM
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The problem with your argument is that the article didn't just take the current rate and project it forward. It looked at the past rates and compared them to today's. It also pointed out how in the past (from apox. 3000 years ago to about 9000) Greenland was much warmer than today with sea levels no higher than today, and that in the much more recent past (1915 through 1965) Greenland was apparently about 2 degrees warmer with no acceleration in changes in sea level.

As for comparisons to SS, well Social Security already spends a ton of money, and the ways that the spending will increase are understood far better than climate, and nearly locked in. Greenland's ice melting is at a very low level (four ten–thousandths of its ice per year) without any certainty of any future increase.
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