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To: E. Charters who wrote (14664)	6/28/2006 8:29:36 PM
From: Land Shark	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 78418

Denialist? I love these Global Warming denialists who point at the Medieval Warming Period and say this is just another one of them. Meanwhile, they ignore the chorus of alarms from latter-day scientists about the imminent global catastrophe if we don't do something about it by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

To: E. Charters who wrote (14664)	6/28/2006 10:30:39 PM
From: LoneClone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78418

EC, you have just outlined so perfectly the hubris with which we are approaching this problem. The consequences of our collective decisions have been of such impact that they have modified the natural cycles your post describes so well, cycles of tremendous scale and impact. To think we can just ride this out, or that we can somehow control or neutralize the multifarious impacts of modifying the composition of the earth's atmosphere, is absurd. Perhaps the reason the earth and its atmosphere are warming so quickly is the combined effect of sadly predictable human action and mostly unpredictable natural cycles. Or perhaps it would be even worse if we weren't currently in a natural cooling cycle. What noone can deny is that we have materially changed the composition of the earth's atmosphere, to an extent normally seen only as a consequence of natural disasters of enormous magnitude and enormity. Or that there are more extreme weather events during times of climatic volatility [Enormous enormity -- I've been waiting for a chance to use this perfectly correct construction. <vbg>] LC