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To: Lane3 who wrote (63337)	5/4/2008 2:50:19 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542013

Lane3; We have Al Gore telling us the train leaves at ten today. It's his tipping point, not mine. Were it not for his tipping point, Sure giving Gore an awful lot of credit. What if Gore is right but just off a decade or two or five? Should we stop now and wait until we get to the tipping point? ......If your life depended on making the train, would you ever give up catching it? What if the train is late for whatever reason? steve

To: Lane3 who wrote (63337)	5/4/2008 4:19:24 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542013

<<<You're changing the scenario. We have Al GORE telling us the train leaves at ten today. It's his tipping point, not mine. Were it not for his tipping point, we would not be having this discussion. So you can't argue that we don't know when the train is leaving. That's the key parameter of the discussion.>>> I must have missed it, but what did Gore say that left you thinking there is no time left to remedy GW?

To: Lane3 who wrote (63337)	5/4/2008 9:18:38 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542013

>>We have Al Gore telling us the train leaves at ten today. It's his tipping point, not mine. Were it not for his tipping point, we would not be having this discussion. So you can't argue that we don't know when the train is leaving. That's the key parameter of the discussion.<< Karen - That's a little bit silly. Al Gore is only one person. He has made statements about a tipping point. You seem to be saying that since Al Gore has said this or that, the entire discussion now has to center on his particular statements? So if Al Gore is wrong, then the entire community of people who are concerned about GW is wrong. Maybe I'm misunderstanding you. I'm sure that's not what you mean to say. It seems to me that there are enough unknowns in the equation to make it clear that no matter what Al Gore, or any other individual, says, we really don't know when that train may be leaving. So rather than assuming it's already too late to do anything useful, it probably makes more sense to try to do what we can. - Allen