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To: neolib who wrote (213014)	1/14/2007 3:31:04 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Maybe you are the last to hear - the human population is going to drop, starting in February if H5N1 humanizes in time, which seems very unlikely. But even without H5N1 and women deciding that they don't want to produce more people like you, the world's population is going to drop a lot by 2100. My production of CO2 has dropped a lot already. I should plan more airline flights to try to maintain my production, but it's so unpleasant dealing with airports [the security people, government bullies and problems, cost of passports and paperwork and risk of being interrogated and searched and held against one's will, with missed flights etc] that I can't be bothered. Sure, we have increased CO2 levels for 100 years. But that was done with oil and gas forming gushers! The easy oil is dwindling, though Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq are still loaded with the stuff. Even all our efforts might not be enough to prevent the ice age returning. There is more to keeping the place warm than CO2. Clouds, sun output, plant cover on the ground, snow cover, methane and other things all play a part and they might not help with keeping the planet warm. Be scientific. All our efforts have resulted in a global average temperature increase of 0.7 deg C, [which we perhaps can't claim because of other effects]. That's pathetic. Even with a vast effort on getting CO2 into the air, that's all we have achieved. Regime change in Iraq has been more successful. Saddam, Uday and Qusay have gone. Mqurice