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To: Omedalus
"We would do much, much better to allocate our hard-won
intelligence to trying to figure out how to live in the
soon-to-be warmer planet, rather than bickering about why
it's happening or, even worse, exerting Herculean but
ultimately futile efforts to stop it."


How do we know the planet is not going to go through a cooling phase?
66 posted on 09/10/2006 12:08:47 PM PDT by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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To: DaveTesla
How do we know the planet is not going to go through a cooling phase?

We don't know for certain. Right now, based on evidence we've accumulated, we believe that we're in a rare temperate plateau between normally hot and cold extremes, and that we're accelerating in a slide towards the hot state.

This is all based on large amounts of inference. It could be completely wrong, but right now it matches the accumulated evidence to the best of our ability to compare and analyze.

Of course, just because you know your world model may be faulty, doesn't mean you should live your life catering to the possible faultiness. In other words, just because you can hedge your bets on your belief doesn't mean you should hedge your actions. I recognize that there's an outside chance that I may be hallucinating the chair in front of my computer desk right now, but I'm still going to sit on it without even pausing. :)

68 posted on 09/10/2006 12:40:36 PM PDT by Omedalus
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