[geeks] I really don't get it ...

[David Cantrell]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 07:32:40PM -0500, Mike Hebel 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.

Of course, in climatologist-speak, short-term is of the order of a century
so even if we put our house in order right now, we're still fucked.  But we
should still put our house in order anyway, in an attempt to only cause
a temporary perturbation and not a change of state.

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