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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (310886)	11/16/2006 3:30:39 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577030

"I think you've exaggerated the examples, " Maybe. Examine the data and draw your own conclusions. But the timing is there, albeit a little fuzzier on the cooling end. There was a cooling trend before the plague(s) and it has been contended that the cooler wetter weather made the plagues worse. However, the CO2 concentration did decline a lot in the wake of the population crash and the reforestation of Europe. The trough aligns pretty nicely with the Little Ice Age, and average temps and CO2 concentration climbed more or less in lock step. "Or to put it another way, what would be cheaper? Trying to prevent the effects of global warming, or adapting to said effects?" A large percentage of the US population lives within a hundred miles of the coast. Not only that, but many of the rest lives close to a major river. So not only are we looking at breeding different food crops and maybe having to give up ones like wheat, we are looking at relocating most of the major cities and much of the population in the country. Granted, that would be spaced out over a century or so, but it would have to be done. What would be the cost of moving greater LA, New York City, Silicon Valley? Just to name 3.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (310886)	11/16/2006 3:52:30 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577030

Or to put it another way, what would be cheaper? Cheaper for who? In an introductory clip a Marshall Islander comments, "It is very difficult for someone living in the United States to grasp the fact that if the sea level rises just a few feet our whole nation will disappear." This comment, and the timing of the video's release, leave little room for doubt why the video was produced and who is the principal target audience--the American public and, especially, its negotiators at the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in the Hague late last year. Do you think the Fla keys and coast will be spared? Al