Blackwater <bw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:05:45 -0700 (PDT), Robert S
> <roberts218e@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >On 17 Jul, 01:19, c...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Cary Kittrell) wrote:
> >> In article
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> Robert
S <roberts2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> > On 16 Jul, 02:13, =A7=A7 KR=A5K=A5T =A7...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> >> > > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:55:30 -0700 (PDT), Robert S
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> >> > > <roberts2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> > > >On Jul 15, 7:51 pm, abelard <abela...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >> > > >Slight warming is unequivocal. The pro****tion, or lack thereof,
caused
> >> > > >by man is very much equivocal.
> >>
> >> > > >How's the Sun doing now? We might be in for a new mini ice age.
> >>
> >> > > That would be kewel! :)
> >>
> >> > Climate is constantly changing, and has been for hundreds of
millions
> >> > of years empirically. But changing about an equilibrium point.
> >>
> >> > Yet, miraculously, the present climate is apparently nirvana,
> >>
> >> In fact it is, in the sense that both the biota and human cultures
> >> are adapted to the current climate.
> >
> >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.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> If the current average global temperature were five degrees
> >> warmer -- or cooler -- then the same arguments
> >> would apply.
> >
> >Humanity lives in deserts and in tundra and everywhere in between.
> >
> >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.
>
>
Some idiots think that the arctic tundra will become arable farm land!
I've already sucked up all the property in Moose Factory on Hudson Bay.
I plan on creating "new Miami Beach" up there.
Yeah! That's the ticket!
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