Allen Epps wrote:
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If you don't think global warming is a bogus issue,
you have a lot to worry about. Rapidly melting
polar ice caps make Osama Bin Laden look
like a pain-in-the-ass ankle biter.

I think global warming IS a bogus issue.

Yes, of course it is. Oh, sure, you can kiss New York, Los Angeles,
Philidelphia, Boston, Rome, Sydney, Melbourne, London and Washington
goodbye as they head out to take up permanent residence on the
continental shelves, but hey, Moscow, Peking (yeah, I know, but I still
like the duck), Riyadh, New Delhi and Bogota should be just fine.


However I believe global climatic change is real

Ah! So, you're a proponent of the global cooling scenario, eh? Well,
it's not a popular school of thought just now, but hang in
there.......your day will come.

and it is smart to understand what part of it is
man caused, what we can do about it and at what cost and not go off and
spend a whole lot of money to do damn little

Hm.....if the money will accomplish damned little, doesn't that
presuppose that you already understand the problems well enough? I
mean, how else can one know how much can or cannot be done.......right?

when that money could
instead be used to provide clean water or plant trees or fix clean air
problems.

Good point. Unfortunately, it's probably inevitable that someone will
come along and suggest (however absurd you and I may realize it is)
that clean air and **** like that leads us right back to that bogus
"global warming" thingy. See the problem?

I'm a big fan of the think local idea.

Refresh my memory.....who was it you used to fly for? Was it the Anne
Arundel Army?......the North Point Navy? Anyway, by "local" I assume
you mean to include anything within reasonable commuting distance,
like.......oh.......say, Iraq?....Afghanistan?.....the
Balkans?.....Granada?.....Vietnam?.....places like that......right?

I'm also a big fan of Bjorn Lomborg

Never heard of him. Doesn't matter. He's an idiot.

mostly because he tries to show that there cost to all
this

Nah.......abject nonsense.

and we need to be smart

O.k., we're ****in' doomed.

and change what we can and learn to live
with what we can't change.

God grant me the wisd.......um.......well, you know.

Wolfgang
you lie awake nights.....trying to imagine what it must be like to
believe the **** you write......right? well......that ain't my
problem, is it?