Re: Global Warming: Junk science at it's [best] worst

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:30:56 -0400, krw <krw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <e82re3d4juclpahu2fes7564i2m3ge408j@xxxxxxx>,
bt.l.barryl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:58:48 -0700, z <gzuckier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sep 10, 5:27 pm, Barry Lennox <bt.l.bar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:37:05 -0700, bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sep 10, 4:25 am, Richard The Dreaded Libertarian <n...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 02:45:42 -0700, bill.sloman wrote:
On Sep 9, 9:26 am, Richard The Dreaded Libertarian <n...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
...
So, we should _encourage_ global warming, because when it reaches
runaway, it will be like the Biblical Flood, and purge all of the
wicked people off the planet, right?

If it gets serious, global warming will cover rather more of the earth
than the biblical flood, which probably records the flooding of the
Black Sea basin when the Mediterranean broke through the Bosphorus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosporus

It's likely to purge all of the good people as well, along with most
other forms of animal life. The end-Permian mass extinction isn't the
only one that seems to have been caused by global warming.

And, given this, are you claiming that exhorting the maximum number
of people to wring their hands, gnash their teeth, rend their garments,
and submit to your dictates of who should do what when, will change
the course of the Planet's evolution?

Which way?

Try reading George Monbiot's "Heat" - ISBN 0-7139-9924-1 - which sets
out how residents of the U.K. might cut their carbon dioxide output
down to the 0.8 tons per year which might lets us hold global warming
to only 2.0C.

At the moment., U.K. residents average 9.5 tons per year (US residents
produce about 20 tons).

It looks as if air travel will have to go, but otherwise we can hang
onto a tolerably comfortable modern lifestyle.

So what day will Al Gore give up on air travel. Oh and when will his
power meter stop spinning like a child's top?

When that day comes, I will take it seriously. Until then it's just a
new industry and a consultant's wet dream.-

Somehow, I doubt that if Al Gore suddenly decided to eschew all fossil
fuels, you would follow. There would be another excuse.

Tell you what, let's have a serious wager. If Algore does those
things, and I develop another excuse, I pay you $10M. If I do take it
seriously, you pay me $10M.

...and you both pay me $10M if AlGore doesn't eliminate his fossil
fuel consumption. What's the date this has to take place by?

2099
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