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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: neolib who wrote (23465)12/17/2008 5:04:03 PM
From: Maurice Winn1 Recommendation  Read Replies (3) of 36917
 
Neo, I was probably an environmentalist before you were born [being fairly elderly now at age 60]. I'm not compulsively in favour of CO2 emissions. It is quite impressive that such a vast CO2 production system has raised CO2 levels as little as they have despite a century of effort, but flying around the world in 747s gives some idea of the sheer scale of oceans and atmosphere compared with the CO2 efforts.

You say you go by the data. I have been watching data for quarter of a century on CO2 effects and there seems nothing to worry about. Even the models produced by climate geeks don't suggest major consequences to worry about and those consequences will be spread over a century or two.

I invented a CO2 sequestration method, but it turned out not to be necessary [and those naughty blighters at Mitsubishi patented it - I wonder if I mentioned it to them when they visited me at BP Oil in 1986]. I'm all for a good panic. They are great fun. I was all ready for a good panic on CO2, but it turned out to be a fizzer. I prefer something to actually panic about. Lead in petrol was a fair panic and I panicked more than anyone else. I was all in favour of regulation a decade before it was brought in [banning the stuff in NZ].

It must be a coincidence that if it moves, you say regulate it and put governments in charge.

Mqurice
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