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To: RetiredNow who wrote (7045)	4/8/2009 2:11:25 PM
From: Hawkmoon	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

Let's say we continue emitting GHGs and in 100 years, we start experiencing massive financial losses from all the impacts. Let's say we all encourage poor people to buy homes they can't afford over the course of 10 years and see what kind of impact we suffer from the financial losses... Oh.. I forgot.. we've already done that.. ;0) Right now, scientists say that an increase in temp by 7 degrees celsius will render half of the world too hot to live in. Dude.. I was living in Iraq for 2 years where temps were REGULARLY over 110 degrees during the summer. But there are 20 million people CHOOSING to live there and their ancestors have been there for over a thousand years. Where do you live where a 7 degree temperature increase will make it so you can't adapt like those folks in the mid-east? I'm not saying it would be easy, but we're going to need some SERIOUSLY HIGH global temps before mankind is no longer able to inhabit this planet. Thus, you're just being plain ridiculous in your fear-mongering. And that's the problem most of us have with you eco-wackos. You have no sense of rationality, moderation, or logical balance. You're the same people from the 70's who were "crying wolf" about the impending ice age. But when that cooling failed to arrive, you simply shifted over to GW as your new mantra to justify your political activitism and research grants. Y'all just need to chill out, continue to collect data, and focus on creating a sustainable energy infrastructure that is more focused upon our economic and national security needs, than in trying to perpetuate incomplete, and often fraudulent, theories. And then you need to figure how to utilize the natural natural methods for achieving your goals rather than trying to fight those natural mechanisms for preserving the current CO2 balance. Hawk