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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (70381)	6/3/2016 5:15:48 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 86355

The fundamental mistake the Global Alarmists make is to think that the world is homeostatic. They also think it's beneficent. The unfortunate reality [don't tell children] is that for billions of years, Earth has been on a way one journey. It has never been in balance. It does not care at all about life in general or human life in particular. Snowball Earth [other than a few volcanic spots] looks like the natural end state, before a red giant sun reheats it. During the life part, the ecosphere strips the carbon from the atmosphere and buries it in stupendously vast tar, coal, oil, gas and limestone deposits leaving nearly no CO2 for life to live on. A vast tragedy of the commons. All people have done is return a tiny fraction of the carbon to the ecosphere. Plants, snow, clouds, deserts, dew point, rain, CO2 form feedback loops causing plant cover to extend or reduce depending on the current situation. As CO2 was stripped away, snow cover and deserts gained ground. The ice age became the norm, with short 10,000 year interglacials. Now that CO2 is increasing, snow cover and deserts shrink. Hopefully, reglaciation will be held at bay. Mqurice