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Post by socold on Aug 22, 2009 20:32:06 GMT
There has been so much put out there by people who should know what has caused global warming that I have doubts about my own conclusions. Global cooling is serious while golbal warming is a benefit. It depends how much
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Post by gfw on Aug 23, 2009 3:25:55 GMT
It depends how much. Heh, that's it in a nutshell. The temps of the medieval warm period? (Which, btw, we have just started to exceed...) Excellent for humans! Another 4 deg C higher? Not so excellent. BTW, did I seriously see two people upthread agree that the Greenland Ice Sheet wasn't there when the Norse were? That's as scientific as talking about Adam and Eve riding dinosaurs.
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Post by kiwistonewall on Aug 23, 2009 23:23:05 GMT
Our lives are very short - nothing much happens in the vast majority of our lifetimes - Geological events wipe out the odd city every 50 years or so - most in the third world, and most before the advent of mass media.
Over many years oceans have risen & fallen, ice has come and gone. The best thing we can do is do be free and adapt as things happen.
The modern western idea of obviating every risk has created a fearful citizenry, easily controlled & manipulated. From food labelling to occupational safety and Health Natzis (at least in NZ and Australia) we have created monstrous bureaucracies trying to protect us from every risk imaginable.
All this creates layers of expense - with no added protection. Labelled food still poisons, licenced teaches still abuse children, and corruption breeds inside this mess.
In fact, the bureaucrats love failure - it gives them the excuse to ask for more money. Give schools more money based on the number of illiterates they have? Surprise, surprise, the number of illiterates increase. (In the US, they discovered that educational achievement plunged as funding for failure increased!!)
So, start funding climate change issues, and we'll get more and more climate change issues requiring ever more and more controls, and ever more and more reports of why our freedoms must be eliminated!
Oops, too late, we fund them already. ;D
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Post by poitsplace on Aug 24, 2009 15:33:27 GMT
Well said, Kiwi
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