X-Message-Number: 23242 From: Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 23:34:10 EST Subject: James: "chill" out (har, har) You have to remember, James, that the long-suffering and much-esteemed Mr. Platt is OLD, as am I. Thus our childhood memories are of federally funded junk-science stories about global COOLING, rather than federally funded warming tales, and we tend toward skepticism about the genius of climate predictors (especially since the proposed cure for warming is more power to governments, which was the proposed cure for cooling...). Of course the Earth may well be warming, or cooling. If it is warming, then we're in luck: warming moves us back into the optimal range for life. Cooling would really hurt. (Remember, even if we are warming up a little, a volcano, full-scale nuclear war, or asteroid hit could put us into an Ice Age anyway!) Here's some climate records for perspective: http://www.scotese.com/climate.htm Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23242