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Bob Martin wrote:

in 49484 20090406 224212 Alastair wrote:

Enough of this arguing with deniers. Here's the facts
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle6047457.ece

Some interesting readers' comments at the end.
Why is it that most "deniers" come from the USA? Their media?

Perhaps they have an education system that teaches them to think, and
not just accept whatever they are told.

BTW it is sloppy thinking to suggest that this proves the CO2 theory.
All of us who posess thermometers know that warming has happened. All
of us know that in Antarctica, snow falls on the continent and spreads
outward, and the resulting ice "calves" during re southern summer.
Nothing new there.

Climate change is not new. It has always happened, with or without
power stations and motor cars. And mankind has always survived it. A
bit of extra warmth might even be a good thing, when you think of all
that tundra that might become fertile.

Trying to stop climate change (even if that is desirable which is
questionable) is like King Canute trying to stop the tide coming in.
Except that he didn't make the mistake of commiting the entire
contents of his treasury to doing so. Perhaps if he was worried that
the tide would keep coming in forever and swamp his kingdom, he should
have built flood defences rather than telling it to go back!

And nothing is forever.

Martin

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