X-Message-Number: 15027 From: Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 08:53:16 EST Subject: Thomas Nord... worry about Ice Ages! (and all politicians) A mild greenhouse warming would just put the Earth into a climatic optimum... Sweden might even become habitable. An Ice Age would be a real problem (especially for people who insist on living next to the Arctic circle)... and if you look at recent geological history, an Ice Age is more likely. As far as Gore goes, have you read his book? He was claiming that sheep in Patagonia were going blind in 1990 from an ozone hole that wouldn't appear for hundreds of years in the worst case... he's no more serious about science than Bush. He also seems to think that the solution to global warming is to abandon nuclear power and burn lots of fossil fuels... I'm not saying you shouldn't be worried about idiots in the US Presidency, we all should (especially those of us who live in countries with no nuclear weapons that can be freely bombed to draw attention away from Presidential misdeeds, like Sudan and Sweden). But neither Gore nor Nader is any more friendly than Bush to the type of open, free future we'll need to see ordinary people allowed to do cryonics (the politicians may start freezing themselves, though, just as American politicians typically obtain drugs from overseas that the FDA keeps away from Americans... look at Senator Simpson's use of deprenyl in the mid-80s etc.) Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15027