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To: Lane3 who wrote (100587)	2/16/2005 8:20:34 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793696

<>< The question of what to do about climate change is also still open. >> Here we go. We don't know what will happen. We don't know if what will happen will be good or bad or if we should care at all. And we don't know what we could do about it if we knew what will happen and why we should care. There are a lot of things we want to know that we don't know. That will always be the case. Knowing what we know now is not as desireable as knowing a lot more than we know, but it should be intuitively obvious that what is happening with respect to pollution can not be good. To say that perhaps it could be a good thing - a lot of positive things can come out of it - does not merit a serious response. You don't have to be a mathematician, physicist, or climatologist to see that on a clear day when you drive westward toward the Rocky Mountains and see smog hanging over Denver - you should be able to surmise that it is not a good thing. The smog in California is even worse. What is happening in some of the other third world urban areas is even far worse. You don't need a degree in anything to tell you that something should be done - now - not even for our childrens sake but for many of the adults whose health is being damaged. By not being able to come up with a comprehensive plan to combat the downside of pollution does not mean that things can not be done in the mean time. <<Climate scientists have repeatedly tried to make this clear. It is time for the rest of us to listen.>> This is the religion part. The oracle has spoken and we must give offerings to the climate gods. With the available knowledge and tools that we have, this is the best that we can come up. As is often quoted around here: The race may not always go to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way you bet. To obfuscate and discredit sincere people with political agenda is not helpful or wise in anyway.