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To: Scumbria who wrote (124314)	9/20/2000 6:20:05 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572957

we are in such full-throttle denial about global warming that you can barely get anyone to pay attention. creators.com; Scumbria, Good article! Unfortunately the human race may be disfunctionally fatalistic and won't wake up to the notion that there is a problem until Iowa becomes an island in the middle of the PacAtlan Ocean. ted

To: Scumbria who wrote (124314)	9/21/2000 1:09:54 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572957

OT Scumbria, I found this part interesting. Hansen, the NASA climatologist who has been helpful on global warming before, has a new study suggesting a cheaper way out. Rather than concentrating on carbon dioxide, which comes from burning fossil fuels, if we concentrate on getting rid of the five other greenhouse gases (especially methane) it could do as much good overall as cutting carbon dioxide from fossil fuels. The cost and dificulty of cutting CO2 would be very high. Reduceing other greenhouse gasses would be much easier to do. As for denial about global warming I would say it is rather having a high burden of proof for anyone who proposes actions that will cost trillions combined with the fact that climate change is a complex issue. It is hard to present solid evidence about the strength of any particular factor on climate change because many things effect it and large scale changesges happen slowly while local and/or temporary changes happen far quicker. Even a decades long trend can be a relatively minor bit of noise. Also different methods of measureing tempatures give different results. There is more then enough reason to believe global warming either all ready is happening or will happen, to support taking easy and cheap methods (and in this context a couple of billion dollars would be cheap) but not to support government intervention to restructure the world economy to produce much less CO2. Tim