On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:05:45 -0700 (PDT), Robert S
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>On 17 Jul, 01:19, c...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Cary Kittrell) wrote:
>> In article
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> Robert
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>> > On 16 Jul, 02:13, =A7=A7 KR=A5K=A5T =A7...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:55:30 -0700 (PDT), Robert S
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>> > > <roberts2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > > >On Jul 15, 7:51 pm, abelard <abela...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > > >Slight warming is unequivocal. The pro****tion, or lack thereof,
caused
>> > > >by man is very much equivocal.
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>> > > >How's the Sun doing now? We might be in for a new mini ice age.
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>> > > That would be kewel! :)
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>> > Climate is constantly changing, and has been for hundreds of millions
>> > of years empirically. But changing about an equilibrium point.
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>> > Yet, miraculously, the present climate is apparently nirvana,
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>> In fact it is, in the sense that both the biota and human cultures
>> are adapted to the current climate.
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>What was the average temperature over the time period in which
>humanity evolved? I'll wager quiet different from what it is right
>now, purely from a statical point of view.
Since the climate is never "settled", you can pick most ANY
instant in time and 'prove' that todays situation is unique
and 'abnormal'. How'd the man phrase it ... "Lies, damned
lies - and statistics" ? :-)
>> > and any deviation from it will be disastrous.
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>> And because both the biota and human cultures are
>> adapted to the current climate, then deviations
>> do in fact have the potential to be disasterous.
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>> If the current average global temperature were five degrees
>> warmer -- or cooler -- then the same arguments
>> would apply.
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>Humanity lives in deserts and in tundra and everywhere in between.
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>Sentience enables very, very rapid adaption.
Yep. WE will survive quite nicely ... well, SOME of us, the
species anyway. However there are a LOT of people who now
live in very marginal environments and really can't move
anywhere else. Most of THEM will perish if there's a big
climate swing ... a couple billion perhaps ? There will
also be resource wars - the poor and deprived predating on
other poor deprived people ... fighting over water, farm
land, wood and such. Add another billion casualties.
Of course some 'marginal' environments will become GOOD
environments because of climate ****fts. SOME people will
benifit, flourish ... somewhat offsetting the losses.
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