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RWTF are you reading all post from 2006 forward? Bringing up this one seems odd unless you feel strongly about the issue. I clearly remember 40 plus years ago all the experts were giving us clear warnings of global cooling and a possible mini ice age in our near future. Didn't happen.
Now it's global warming or to be more PC climate change. Is Climate Change a long term explanation for weather change which occurs constantly? To me predicting global warming off of a few years data is like predicting the next five cards dealt in a deck of cards based on what turned up in the last five. Highly speculative, perhaps right, perhaps half right or perhaps totally wrong. We just finished the 50 wettest years in the Southwest in nearly a thousand years. Using that short data sample climate experts could predict the same or more likely ever increasing rainfall. Did not happen. Predicting the future based on past events does not work in stocks, elections or weather.
Like the Sun burning out I no longer worry about global warming. Nothing goes in one direction for ever. Don't forget southern Canada was one a semi tropical climate and life survived that. Short term things might be a problem for some but long term we will be fine.
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I discovered Ortolans in Thomas Harris' great book "Hannibal Rising" as for getting thrown off any more boards, not quite sure how to respond to that. Perhaps my "razor sharp wit" is not a good fit on those boards--fortunately, our host Dave W. is a bit more tolerant and broad minded- I have never met him, so cannot say for certain. There are a fair number of good guys on this BBS- most of them tend to post in the German gun column-
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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Ted, You're right that addressing climate change would waste a lot of money if the scientists are wrong. On the other hand imagine what the cost of doing nothing is when it turns out they're right. The most conservative response would clearly seem to seem to be to act. Probably not a good idea to start down this road. The debate is always enjoyable, but you should ask Dave first if he wants to have an AGW thread going. The thread, along with the silly GW doomsayers in the thread, has been going for over a decade. If Dave objected, I'd guess we would know by now. Best, Ted
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