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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (237058)	6/14/2005 2:25:04 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572942

"Assume for the moment that "global warming" isn't a man-made phenomenon." True, that is an open question. But given the rate of CO2 and methane increase in the atmosphere, which has been directly measured for more than a hundred years and indirectly for much longer than that, you have to conclude that something at least should be happening. Now it could be that the CO2 and methane increases have some other than human cause. But that would mean by some massive coincidence the level of CO2 tends to track increases in human population, including significant dips during Plague Years... So what can be done? Air conditioning, of course is a non-starter for obvious reasons. Cutting CO2 releases might make sense, but given that politics has a short term horizon it probably isn't going to happen. Posturing is much more important than results. Yes, change happens. But generally change happens pretty slowly. And change can be positive, but those positives tend to be long term and the pain is almost always short term. In the past, long term climatic changes have resulted in over 80% of existing species to go extinct with a huge decline in active biomass. This we have seen from the fossil record. Doing things to promote climatic change because to do otherwise might be expensive seems foolish, but WDIK? Shifting the equilibrium in a chaotic system can have radical effects. Chaos theory is interesting in that way.