Farewell, Prototype Testing

I like yout bi-line... dead on!

Believe or disbelieve as you see fit. It is in the nature of the vast bulk of current humanity to either disbelieve, not care or not notice. Whatever the truth is it is highly unlikely that civilized humanity will muster any meaningful response that will slow the current conditions that cause ocean levels to rise and the resultant shift in climate patterns.

So if you disbelieve you will have plenty of company. But best to avoid long term commitments to ocean front property and desert farmland dependent on irrigated agriculture to support it.

Ed Weldon

The wife has been after me for years to buy a beachfront property. I keep telling her, depending on who we choose to believe, our current residence will be ocean front within the next 25 to 75 years or so, although the beach will be obscured by all those abandoned buildings that now stand in the way. On the other hand, think of the wonderful fish habitat Manhattan will make...

The current increase in greenhouse gases, and subsequent global warming, are NOT unprecedented- man just hasn't been around long enough to record the data accurately. This was quite obvious in the original UN Climate report (in the section on paleoclimate). I don't know if this has been removed from subsequent versions of the report.

There have also been studies suggesting that human-induced climate change can be detected more than 5000 years ago, long before the adoption of fossil fuels- resulting from deforestation of large areas of Eurasia for agriculture. This information has been suppressed by the climate community.

Planting trees is a whole lot cheaper, and a whole lot more reliable than trying to pump excess carbon underground- and, with the money one could save (based on the projected cost of one project for which data is available, located in Illinois), one could probably build at least two nuclear power plants along the proven design scheme used in France or Japan, without having to re-invent anything.

I have no hope that the world governments will be able to come up with an appropriate response to the existing "climate crisis". I, for one, am a strong advocate of a warmer world. Look at the globe- look at how much valuable farming real estate becomes available in the Northern Hemisphere as the temperate regions move north. Think of all the hunger this will present.

Global warming is far preferable to the alternative, which is global cooling (i.e., a new ice age)...

GA, kvsridhar. See guys, Bangalore has a lot more going for it than good western English accents on the phone.

Ed Weldon

Thank you kind sir....