[Wonder Warthog]

"However, in a related study published in Nature on Sept. 25, 2003, Caldeira and LLNL physicist Michael Wickett found that unrestrained release of fossil-fuel carbon dioxide to the atmosphere could threaten extinction for these climate-stabilizing marine organisms."

They just HAVE to add the propanda about "excess atmospheric CO2". Exactly "why" should a few more ppm of CO2 "threaten extinction" for critters who make their shells out of calcium carbonate?? Seems to me that it would be more likely to make them flourish in greater abundance.

[Mike Darancette]

Seems to me that it would be more likely to make them flourish in greater abundance.

Remember, Philbert, environmentalism has become a religion and when you do not adhere to doctrine illogical bad things are promised.

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

I was pleased to see a thread which combined questions of religious belief with questions of belief in Global Warming.

Both an be disputed for lack of evidence and require a certain amount of faith one way or the other.

My tendency, as a student of Pascal's wager, is to err on the side of saftey and say that the benefits of belief with respect to the expenditure required to do so is a much better value than the dangers of disbelief and the consquences of being wrong.