[ExI] Phil Jones acknowledging that climate science isn'tsettled

[Christopher Luebcke]

I wasn't referring to global warming. I was referring to fear-mongering conspiracy theorists, as willing to paint their opponents as a mortal threat as they are unencumbered by evidence in support thereof. 



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From: spike <spike66 at att.net>
To: rafal at smigrodzki.org; ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Mon, March 1, 2010 7:45:55 PM
Subject: Re: [ExI] Phil Jones acknowledging that climate science isn'tsettled



> ...On Behalf Of Rafal Smigrodzki

> ...you insinuated that I am about to "bring our 
> civilization to its knees". I couldn't help myself but 
> chuckle over that one. Rafal

I often see stuff like this, but it is always puzzling.  Can someone explain
why the average temperature increasing by a degree or two or half a degree
in a human lifetime would bring civilization to its knees?  Are we really
that delicate and non-adaptable?  

When I talk to teenagers about what they think will happen with global
warming, they all seem to have something very short term in mind.  One
currently in her teens expressed surprise we haven't already seen something
dramatic changing.  Even the most hard core AGW types realize that this
isn't anything that will change suddenly, ja?

spike





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