The real kicker is that the same enviro-nuts who are screaming about
global warming and greenhouse gases... are fighting every proposal to do
something about the problem.
We have environmentalists here fighting a wind farm because it will be
too close to a marshland... and they stopped a proposed ethanol plant just
down the road because of "potential environmental dangers".
The "environmental movement" is showing it's true colors... they don't
have any intention of solving the perceived problems; they just want to
prevent anybody else from making a living off the land!
If the "government" was going to build the wind farm or ethanol plant at
a huge cost to the taxpayers... that would be fine; but since some private
firm actually stands to make some money while reducing our dependence on
foreign oil... these clowns fight them tooth & nail.



"Kirk Gordon" wrote in message
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Edw wrote:

Has it occurred to you that the biosphere has evolved in a climate
that has remained relatively stable for tens of thousands of years?

It hasn't. Earth's climate varies all over the map, even on
relatively short time frames. And "tens of thousands of years" isn't
much in terms of evolution. You're worried about things that aren't
even true.

There are crops and fauna that would not survive such a change.

There are ALWAYS plants and animals that live on the edge of
extinction. And they fall off the edge every day, for reasons that have
nothing to do with humans burning fossil fuels. Come to think of it,
where do you imagine that those fossil fuels came from in the first place?

Extinctions happen constantly, in response to every little change in
anything about the Earth, the sun, the passing of a comet, or just about
any other factor. Species are born, and species die. If they didn't,
evolution wouldn't happen.

Areas that are now productive would shift elsewhere, without respect
to national frontiers. Supplies of fresh, potable water would also
shift, as rainfall patterns, permafrost and snowfall amounts shifted
toward the new temperate zones. Do you know how many wars have been
fought over access to water?

You mean areas like the Northern half of the US, which was once covered
by glaciers, and was an ocean before that; but which now produces enough
food for a significant fraction of the whole world? Or are you thinking
about the Sub-Sahara regions in Africa, which once were an ideal place for
primates to evolve into people, but which are now hostile and hard to live
in? Nature giveth, and Nature taketh away. That's the rules; and we all
have to live (or not) with them.

Are you fimiliar with the shift in patterns of dangerous weather -
tornadoes, tropical storms, flooding and drought? Or the increased
incidence of tidal bores?

Are you familiar with how complex the Earth really is, and how little
science really knows about how and why things work the way they do? Has
it occurred to you that maybe even the most catastrophic changes are
actually nothing more than Earth getting back to normal after having been
unusually friendly for a while?

Little teeny bits of carelessly selected information are NOT a good way
to plan the survival of an entire species.

KG