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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (41680)	7/31/2013 10:01:22 AM
From: Follies	Respond to of 86355

There are lots of alarmists that get ore and more alarmed but are wrong.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (41680)	7/31/2013 5:59:49 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 86355

Hi Rat; Nice! There is a natural comparison between "weapons of mass destruction" and "global warming"! In both cases you had a relatively small number of politically motivated idiot*s running around warning the world about a terrible threat. In the Iraq war it was a right-wing fantasy, the concept that a weak, backward, poor, politically isolated small country in the Middle East was a threat to global peace, LOL. The global warming situation is a left-wing fantasy. In both cases, there was some truth to the threat. Saddam had some chemical weapons at one time or another and CO2 does tend to increase global air temperatures. But in both cases the risk was blown far far out of proportion. Iraq was about as tiny a percentage of the world's economic and military power as CO2 is a percentage of the world's greenhouse gasses. (The primary greenhouse gas is water vapor of course.) The ended up acting on the Iraq threat and "eliminated" it, with something that I would argue is worse, a long lasting instability in the Middle East that continues to knock over ally after ally. I don't doubt that it will eventually knock over Israel too. But the cost of eliminating the CO2 threat is so much more expensive than the Iraq war that it was never attempted. So you're not going to find out what a CO2 neutral world would be like. It will remain in your fantasies only. (But it would be an incredible disaster, far far worse than the Middle East instability that the right-wing fantasy has left us with.) -- Carl