Re: OT:Thanksgiving


Judson McClendon <judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:V4_3j.5902>
Can we spell "glaciers melting all over the world, the Arctic ice cap
melting so quickly that it may be gone in 20 years, the Antartic ice
fields
floating away to sea"? Can we come up with a reason other than global
warming??

The face that such things have been going on without our help for a long
time suggests we aren't needed for it to happen, and probably are not
responsible, and couldn't do anything to help or hurt, even if it's
happening
now, which is anything but certain. A really, really dumb time to be
passing
draconian laws to control human activity and spend vast sums of money. :-)
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I interpreted your post as casting doubt upon global warming happening at
all.

And while it certainly can happen without our help, you're just being
stubborn if you contend that - two centuries of spilling heat, carbon
dioxide, pollutants of all sorts, chemicals such as nitrogen and phosphorus
which cause natural growths to run away, into the environment - have had
nothing to do with it.

What's really, really dumb is to pretend that carbon/emission credit trading
is going to do anything to solve the problem. (You haven't said this, so
you needn't respond if you don't want to). Book-keeping, which is what this
is, won't do anything. As it is done now, emission credits are just a
license to pollute. If there was true political courage anywhere in the
world, polluters would be fined so heavily that they couldn't afford NOT to
clean up. Especially if they couldn't pass it along to their customers.

PL


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