<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>Rafal,</div><div><br></div><div>If you would like to argue that Bangledeshis are not at high risk if the sea level rises significantly, or that it is not the case that Arctic ice cover is drastically falling, do please be my guest.</div><div><br></div><div>The careful reader will in fact note that at no point, not once, during our lively exchange, have I staked a claim that any particular forecast for climate change is correct. I have stated only that I believe that significant climate change over the next several decades is likely.</div><div><br></div><div>Again, I fully encourage you to take your deep analysis and do something productive with it. Perhaps you should find someone who claims that global ice coverage, or Bangladesh's net land area, has shrunk over the last 10 years, and
argue with them. </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> Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tue, March 2, 2010 9:46:36 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ExI] Phil Jones acknowledging that climate science isn'tsettled<br></font><br>
2010/3/2 Christopher Luebcke <<a ymailto="mailto:cluebcke@yahoo.com" href="mailto:cluebcke@yahoo.com">cluebcke@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> imagine a few million starving Bangladeshis overwhelming your<br>> border, for example.<br><br>and:<br><br>> The recent and rapid changes in Arctic ice cover<br><br>### Try to answer the following questions:<br><br>1) How much surface area has Bangladesh been losing per year in the<br>last decade (the same decade that the IPCC until recently claimed to<br>be the hottest decade on record), as measured in square kilometers per<br>year?<br><br>2) What is the net change in ice coverage over our planet's oceans since 1995?<br><br>Once you dig up the actual answers to these questions, you will be in<br>a position to make a meaningful contribution to the discussion of<br>"millions of Bangladeshis" and "fairly serious climate
disruptions".<br><br>Rafal<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>
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