Re: Al Gore where are you?

["Robert L Bass" <no-sales-spam@bassburglaralarms>]

> All this global warming talk assumes we are
> on some peaceful, stable, benign planet and
> that only humankind can foul it up, or save it...

No, that is not correct.  Numerous mainstream
scientific studies indicate that (1) climate change
is cyclical with cycles lasting tens of thousands
of years; and (2) the curret cycle has been
significantly altered by human activity.  In laymen's
terms, what was a very gradual uphill climb in
average annual temperature has suddenly (in
geological terms 100 years is sudden) become a
much steeper slope.

This has been the concensus among virtually all
serious scientific studies on the subject for years.

On the other side are contrarian, outlier "scientists"
primarily bought and paid for by industrial interests
who claim that they have examined the same data
yet see no problem.

It is noteworthy that some of the same "scientists"
who deny that industrial pollution is endangering
the planet also stood up for the cause of such
public interest magnates as Phillip Morris when
they tried to quash government reports that
smoking causes cancer and later, that second-
hand smoke is hazardous.

Some of the same names crop up again in places
like Klamath river basin where (with the assistance
of a certain Republican administration) a bio
disaster occured.

> Some remind us that there have been climatic
> fluctuations throughout time, and there might
> be some variations that give us reasons to
> quibble about it.

There is a lot more than "some variations" and
there's reason to do a lot more than quibble.
Real scientific evidence points to a slowly
building disaster which can still be averted if
individuals and governments do something
about it.  Alternatively, we can pretend it's nothing
and leave things as they are.  We'll likely only
see the beginning of what this causes.  Our
children and grandchildren will pay the price.
A few decades away there will probably be
mass starvation.  Some estimates say that
over a billion people will die from coming drought.

If you know anything about weather, you know
that a 2º-3º rise in ocean temperatures can
mean the difference between a season of
several category 2 and 3 hurricanes and one
with a dozen or more category 5 storms.  New
Orleans was nothing compared to what will
happen when a category 5 storm strikes Miami
even despite the new construction codes.

> I don't see it that way at all...

That doesn't mean it isn't happening.  It only
means you don't see it.

> Where did man have a hand in any of these
> events?
> - Precambrian period (4.6 billion to 523 million
> years ago)
- Vendian period (523-543 million years ago)
> - Both Precambrian and Vendian periods host
> to at least one mass extinction each.

The real questions isn't what happened 523
million years ago.  It isn't even what will happen
523 million years from now.  The issue is what
will happen in the next few decades -- perhaps
the next few generations.

> So boys and girls lots of things can go wrong
> and plenty did go wrong.

So that makes it alright to destroy what we have
now?

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Regards,
Robert L Bass

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