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To: Cogito who wrote (51239)	3/1/2008 8:42:17 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 544095

when you imagine NYC being made completely uninhabitable New York is a gonner either way. Either it blows up or it sinks. Yes, if it sinks, there's a lot of sturm und drang but at least nobody dies. With a bomb, you obviate all the complications you mention, but a whole lot of people die. Pick your poison. And doesn't the total impact depend on the scale as well as the suddenness? I said "all else being equal." It was part of your clip. Disrupted food supplies, a lack of potable water, powerful monsoons, and increased tropical storm and tornadic activity worldwide. Disruption is a problem and a cost but it's a manageable one if it's slow. As far as storms and the like, do we know there will be more? Maybe more some places and fewer someplace else. Again, disruption. Not fun. Pricey. But not the end of the world. I don't know the answers on GW, or whether the anthropogenic aspect of it is important enough to bother about. I don't either. I don't think anyone does. For example, the loss of the arctic ice cap, and the melting of the arctic and sub-arctic permafrost. Just read that it's coming back. I'm wary of all that. Look how often the experts change their minds about diet and pills and whatever. Chocolate is now good for you, for heaven's sake. The experts do a 180 often enough to give your head a 360. With volatility like that, it's hard to get too invested in any of it. I'm just saying that people who brand anyone who is concerned about it a loony may be wrong. I agree with that. But there's something loony about people who wear "the end is near" sandwich boards up and down the sidewalks.