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Your comments at this time are not factually correct. There is a great deal of consensus. This is like saying there is no consensus on evolution.

I am not here to debate what policy should be, but this is a distortion promoted by industry and people with a political agenda mostly. the same way Phillip Morris said their products did not cause cancer.

This is clear a multifactoral issue and that anything deaing with the total world as a petri dish is very complex.

You need to actually do some research, because volcano's cause global cooling. The clouds and particles reflect sunlight back into space. I believe krakatoa caused a hug very cold winter in europe for a couple years, but It may have actually been another volcano.

If you do not know the science or the issue, don't comment because there are people out there who will believe you.

Glaciers feed streams that depend on the amount of snow in the mountains. less snow, less streams. this is causing huge problems for people who depend on the glaciers in south america.
But, once more, complex issue. As earth warms more water in atmosphere and some place could actually see more snow, with increased melting at same time.

My advice, buy some land in canada in an area with out too much population around it, and a good water supply.

My own theory is that the reason we hav not found intelligent life on other planets is because they tend to kill themselves off quickly in the cosmic scheme. after all we went from radio waves to the ability to destroy our self in about a 100 years. How many millions were the dinosaurs around for. Intelligence is an evolutionary dead end, which is why the universe isn't full of little green aliens. rapid travel allows disease to spread, nukes, genetic engineering, or the ability to alter the environment faster than we can adjust for it, or use resources. The nature of every living organism is to expand until it runs out of resources, or something takes out numbers. What will be the limiting factor I have no idea.

But it will happen


On Jul 09 09:13 AM robert.b.ferguson wrote:

> There is no consensus among rational scientists on this issue. The
> notion that industrial activity is driving the warming cycle is rediculous.
> In case you didn't notice the glaciers began melting before the industrial
> revolution ending the last (not the first) ice age. Add to that the
> fact that every volcanic eruption of MT. ST. Hellens magnitude or
> greater puts more pollutants and green house gas into the atmousphere
> than our species has in it's entire history and the picture is much
> different. Even if we could stop global warming it probably wouldn't
> be a good idea. Glaciation recharges aquafers in the northern hemisphere.
> That would be like keeping hurricanes from hitting the North American
> coast, you wouldn't sustain storm damage but you would cause massive
> drought. Lets not inject wierd science into this.