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Bob
17 March 2007 at 16:53

Please examine the facts. You will find that it is more than an "inconvenience" for African and third world nations not to be allowed by the industrialized world to evolve in the name of irrational fear. Children are reduced to squalor, poverty, disease in the name of your "maybe" scenario. Do the science (real science). Do the math. Don't react because of the politics of fear. Here are a few questions.....

Why are there flora and fauna remains under the ice of the poles, showing times of great warmth before man?

Why was it warmer elsewhere in previous periods of history than now long before man inhabited the earth in numbers?

Use your head. Use logic

Steven Douglas
19 March 2007 at 14:36

Absolutely, to both the previous comments. The so-called "Precautionary Principle" is one of the most selfish, and unimaginably thoughtless concepts; a sure death knell to the many hundreds of millions who aren't at liberty to sit at a comfortable keyboard, in air conditioned evirons, and pontificate about the virtues of being "mightily inconvenienced". For them, DEATH is at their door already, and our mighty inconvenience equals death to them. The truly unthinking "denyers" are those who would deny them their chance at simply living beyond their terrible, and terribly dangerous and unhealthy, poverty.

Oliver
22 March 2007 at 10:53

The “real” science that “Bob” refers to is the observable fact that the snow-cover, which is the source of water and life even in the tropics is melting and that if it continues the desertification and consequent starvation of Africa will continue apace. and spread across the world. (They call it global warming) .

The “math” (first-year physics) is that once under way the melting becomes self-inducing because the reflectivity of the earth is reduced and the sun-heat intake increased (they call it global warming). Once under way no human intervention can halt the process, which would render the earth uninhabitable .

The “logic” is that if the human race doesn’t do what is necessary to put a stop to the process before it is too late, there will eventually be very few of its members left undead.

That is the dilemma. What Bob and Steven decide to do about it is up to them