<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div>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. </div><div style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><br><div style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> spike <spike66@att.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> rafal@smigrodzki.org; ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, March 1, 2010 7:45:55 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ExI]
Phil Jones acknowledging that climate science isn'tsettled<br></font><br>
<br><br>> ...On Behalf Of Rafal Smigrodzki<br><br>> ...you insinuated that I am about to "bring our <br>> civilization to its knees". I couldn't help myself but <br>> chuckle over that one. Rafal<br><br>I often see stuff like this, but it is always puzzling. Can someone explain<br>why the average temperature increasing by a degree or two or half a degree<br>in a human lifetime would bring civilization to its knees? Are we really<br>that delicate and non-adaptable? <br><br>When I talk to teenagers about what they think will happen with global<br>warming, they all seem to have something very short term in mind. One<br>currently in her teens expressed surprise we haven't already seen something<br>dramatic changing. Even the most hard core AGW types realize that this<br>isn't anything that will change suddenly, ja?<br><br>spike<br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat
mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a></span><br></div></div><div style="position:fixed"></div>
</div></body></html>