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Old 05-01-2008, 20:28 PM   #17 (permalink)
dalem
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Headlines like for example "what can we do about global warming" are becoming more common. The accompanying articles still speak about the need to arrest man-made global warming, but are increasingly speaking about how we will adapt to it. It's interesting that the media has largely accepted an unproven hypothesis and is now "preparing" us to live with it. The grant community is winning the intellectual battle. The question is, how will it all turn out in the long run?
If the Sun continues its current inactive trend, I would assume that the overall climate will cool as well. When glaciers are eating ski lodges again in the 2020s or so the same old panicmongerers will then begin wailing about how humans are somehow responsible for that too. There will be no apologies, heck, there won't even be any acknowledgement of the utter mendacity of their previous positions.

The only thing to hope for is that they don't waste too much money on the way.

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