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To: Hugh A who wrote (32600)	4/28/2003 3:39:54 PM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Yes sure - so? As I said we don't really understand much about the dynamics of that long-term. We understand a lot about day to day weather and a moderate amount so far about the century or so time spans. The key issue about warming is that human civilization is adapted to what may be a relatively cold time with relatively low sea level compared to most of earth history. What conditions typically are on earth doesn't matter so much - it is change from the present that matters. Nature - which in the past could move in response to climate change is now fragmented on land by human land uses. So it might have a hard time adapting to change. I know geologists normally say this line... but I am coming from an economic perspective on the whole issue not the perspective of the long geological time. As Keynes said: "in the long-run we are all dead" :) David