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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Oxley <paul@adventures.co.za>
To: lro@works.team.net <lro@works.team.net>
Date: Friday, 6 April 2001 18:16
Subject: Re: LRO: Re: Wasted youth (was parts availability, etc.)
>Gbrovers@aol.com wrote:
>
>> Global warming is not a proven fact but it is an undisputable fact
that
>> the percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere has dramaticly risen since the
start
>> of the industrial revolution and the trend is accelerating.
>
>Um, fair point, however it doesn't mean or prove anything. Your sample
>is tiny (given the history of the Earth), and only spans the era when
>testing has been possible, so we have no way of knowing whether ozone
>depletion and warming isn't cyclical, or whether it isn't perhaps
>declining in the long term (one or two millennia).
>
>> The problem with waiting to see what the net result is going to be is
>> that by the time we know for sure, it may be too late to do much.
>
>Environmental eschatology is a growth industry. Since the dawn of human
>habitation on this planet it's been popular to postulate that we have
>reached an apocalyptic 'end time', we create myths and fables about our
>own demise. We even have Chicken Little coining the phrase "The sky's
>falling!" to fret over our fear of a fiery and sticky comeuppance.
>
>Thirty years ago it was nuclear holocaust, today it's CO2 and global
>warming, what next?
>
>Regards
>
>Paul Oxley
>AfricanAdrenalin.com
>
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