On 12/10/2016 08:08 AM, dpb wrote:
On 12/09/2016 5:11 PM, philo wrote:
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even if human activity is not causing "climate change" I always figure,
what is the harm in NOT polluting?
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Within reasonable political and economic reason, sure. Throwing all of
WVA under the bus for no real gain makes no sense whatsoever though nor
can wind/solar replace baseload generation irrespective of the cost.

Since melting ice sheets in Greenland have revealed settlements of
thousand or more years ago, clearly the present temperatures aren't at
all unheard of in "the big picture". This, too, will revert in the
normal chain of events over a few thousand years in all likelihood...



Yep. to get the "big picture" a very long time frame is needed
but what the hell, why not err on the side of caution?