[geeks] I really don't get it ...
Dave McGuire
mcguire at neurotica.com
Wed Oct 23 03:36:37 CDT 2002
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 04:32 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
>> And, I agree. That's why I think that the current "prediction" of
>> global
>> warming is off. There's no way they know using the current
>> information
>> that they can make a call of that magnitude with any clear judgement
>> or
>> an accurancy IMHO of more than random chance.
>
> Yeah, I tend to ignore the scaremongers too. What is true is that we
> are
> perturbing the system, and whilst that is not necessarily going to
> cause
> long-term changes, it's pretty damned certain that the short-term
> effects
> will be noticeable. Seeing that our society is "designed" for a
> particular
> environment, changing that environment accidentally can't be a good
> thing.
"Ask the residents of Pompeii if they feel like a threat to the
planet!"
-George Carlin
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