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To: RetiredNow who wrote (10011)	6/25/2009 9:00:31 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 86356

Ignore, no. We should definitely study climate. But there are big costs from doing things we don't need to as well.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (10011)	6/26/2009 12:13:33 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

I think increased CO2 means warming. With warming will come alot of changes. It likely will.. But the question is whether you're treating the symptoms and not addressing the actual disease: SOMETHING, other than anthropogenic causes, resulted in a DRAMATIC temperature change 10,000 years ago. atmo.arizona.edu But who knows.. Maybe it was caused by the citizens of Mu... ;0) en.wikipedia.org Atlantis? Either way, it indicates that this planet undergoes dramatic climate change bearing NO HUMAN CAUSATION. Now the question TRULY IS.. Are we willing to engage in Geo-Engineering to maintain reasonably stable global temperatures?? And once we decide to do that, by what means do we get the greatest "bang for the buck". Sure.. we need to get away from Fossil Fuels. But even were the US and Europe to do so, it would merely benefit the Chinese and Indians, who have far more people and less money to dedicate to green alternatives. In sum.. we need a plan that takes into account the reality that neither China, nor India are going to be able to reduce, or even maintain, their CO2 emissions. And reducing our CO2 emissions merely to permit those two nations to increase them is no answer. We also need to face the possibility that global warming is inevitable and a natural occurrence beyond our control. And ultimately, we need to accumulate further data in case we've seen the peak in global warming and are heading for a century long+ period of global cooling. Hawk