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To: i-node who wrote (857582)	5/16/2015 8:13:16 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1588048

"The planet can take care of itself and will do so." Yeah; it will run a fever, and kill the virus called "man". "It is downright arrogant to think for a minute that we make any difference" It's arrogant to think one of us could. It's stupid to think that 7 billion of us, putting fossil carbon from 400 or more days of ancient sunlight into the atmosphere every day, won't... Steven, Physicists should take the time to understand their physics better. Only 1% to 2% . . . that may sound small and insignificant . . . but it isn’t. It is well known that the normal human body temperature is about 310 K. Furthermore, it is also well known that a seemingly small change (up or down) in absolute body temperature by only 1% (3.1 K, or 5.6 F) would make one sicker than a dog, and, that a 2% change in body temperature (up or down by 6.2 K, or 11.2 F) will virtually guarantee a dead body. From this, it should be sufficiently clear that, when viewed in absolute energy terms, the viable margin between life and death in the Earth’s biosphere is remarkably narrow – so much so that a seemingly insignificant 1% to 2% change in the total energy of the global environment will invariably result in serious disruption of the established infrastructure of life in the biosphere. rabett.blogspot.com