From: "Mark" 


"Gary Wiltshire"  wrote in message
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> On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 06:16:54 -0400, George Sherwood
>  wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:13:43 +0200, Phil Payne wrote:
>>
>>> Tell it to the Texans.
>>
>> That is a bullshit statement.  I am still not completely convinced one
>> way
>> or another about global warming.  Though I lean towards the idea that man
>> has had an effect on the global climate.  But making the connection
>> between this years hurricanes and global warming is bunk and is being
>> done
>> only for political reasons.
>>
>> Look at the history charts from the National Hurricane Center:
>>
>> http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml?
>>
>> Major hurricanes have gone in cycles for as long as we have been
>> recording
>> them and we are going into an up cycle now.  Still way too early to make
>> about global warming being the cause.
>>
>> George
>
> I think human activity may influence the climate, but global warming has
> been a long term trend, with small excursions of a few centuries duration,
> for the last 13,000 years as we emerge from the most recent ice age.  Ok,
> say we accelerate the process by 100 years, so what against 13,000+  We
> need to recognize that planetary climate is not static and prepare for
> change.

That was Blairs point at Clinton's meeting last weekend, that no one is
going to harm their economy by cutting back, so we're far better off
continuing to work on our technology and coming up with future solutions --
solutions, if needed, that will be less expensive because of advances in
that same technology.

He changed his mind in other words, and before the Mars news came out at that.

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