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David F Mayer — 1/31/2006 12:46:26 AM (archived)

My point is that the climate has been oscillating for the past hundreds of thousands of years. I agree that we should make every reasonable effort to reduce carbon dioxide emissions: Most importantly move away from fossil fuels to solar power (not nuclear power).

However, no matter what we do, the climate is still going to change uncontrollably. There is no such thing as normal climate. The climate of the Earth is unstable and always has been. The particular conditions that we have had for the past few thousand years are not normal, they are simply recent. Sooner or later we must face other conditions and it is absurd to believe that reducing carbon dioxide emissions is somehow going to stabilize the Earth's climate.

That is no reason to continue on the present course of profligate combustion of fossil fuels. We should try to minimize our effects on climate even if we can not reduce them to zero.

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Global Warming Tippin Point - Donald - 1/29/2006 4:15:24 PM
- re: Global Warming Tippin Point - REB - 1/30/2006 10:56:32 PM
- Hey, I wonder... If a little ice is possible, could the opposite be also? - SDF - 1/30/2006 2:54:34 PM
  - has there ever been a case of 60-degrees Celcius Temps on Earth? - Scott Evil - 1/30/2006 3:00:34 PM
- re: coral bleaching is now caused by global warming too? - Scott Evil - 1/30/2006 2:44:19 PM
  - Try not to be an idiot - R.L. - 1/30/2006 3:13:25 PM
- It was too late to reverse climate change 10,000 years ago. - David F Mayer - 1/29/2006 9:27:30 PM
  - How do they know the tempature went up or down during a given period from an Ice core? - Scott Evil - 1/30/2006 2:52:36 PM
    - Isotope ratios are an indicator of temperature (n/t) - R.L. - 1/30/2006 3:08:05 PM
  - Not exactly accurate - Donald - 1/29/2006 9:48:39 PM
  - Did you notice that huge spike in CO2 beyond anything seen before on that graph - R.L. - 1/29/2006 9:45:38 PM
    - Certainly I notice it. - David F Mayer - 1/31/2006 12:46:26 AM
      - I read somewhere that large solar cell clusters cause a substantial heat-sink in area surrounding them. - Scott Evil - 1/31/2006 4:14:59 PM
        
        energy neither created, nor destroyed... - alcaray - 2/1/2006 12:02:31 AM
        
        Changing the albedo changes temperature. - David F Mayer - 1/31/2006 8:58:43 PM
    - re: Did you notice - Tom Brosz - 1/30/2006 8:12:35 PM
      - Yes, maybe temperature has driven CO2 previously? - Sam F. - 1/31/2006 3:27:54 AM
        
        I don't think anyone can answer it. - Tom Brosz - 1/31/2006 5:33:16 PM
        
        It does. It will. It is noted in the literature. - alcaray - 1/31/2006 4:05:07 PM
        
        Melting tundra permits bacterial decomposition to proceed. - David F Mayer - 1/31/2006 9:00:14 PM
        
        Yes. (n/t) - alcaray - 1/31/2006 9:36:52 PM
  - More GARBAGE from David - R.L. - 1/29/2006 9:37:37 PM
- re: A scientist's freedom of speech - Raoul - 1/29/2006 9:16:29 PM
  - How it works - Larry J - 1/29/2006 9:43:02 PM

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