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To: TimF who wrote (3410)	6/1/2004 3:07:55 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7936

it weren't for global dimming, things could be much worse. Things aren't much worse. If global dimming is going to be a factor it is going to work against global warming which would reduce (although perhaps by an insignificant amount) the urgency of taking massively expensive steps to combat global warming. Look at you.......just two posts ago, you were questioning the validity of global dimming but now you're ready to endorse it in an effort to invalidate global warming. Why don't you admit that you want no gov't spending except for defense and be done with it? Again, it doesn't have to be done in one year. Besides, I have faith in our ability to pull it off without derailing the world economy. Yes it doesn't have to be done in a year, but it also isn't a one time cost. You can't add "CO2 scrubbers" and clear out the emissions forever. Previous emissions reductions where eliminating or reducing minor components of the exhaust from burning fossil fuels. Now the idea is to reduce a major component, which probably can only be done by burning less fossil fuel. To some extent this would be done by using less convenient or more expensive energy sources, to some extent it could be done by greater efficiency, but also to some extent it would have to be done by producing less (at least less then we would have produced). Its hopeless.........we need to give up and suffocate in our own waste. ted