On 12/01/2021 21:08, Jim H wrote:
> If something can't be used until it's been in safe use for 10 years,
> it will never be used.

LOL, That's the 'precautionary principle' in full flight there, then.

Modern health and safety regulations would have banned fire, stone axes
and indeed the Wheel.

And is well on its way to doing so today.




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Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early
twenty-first century’s developed world went into hysterical panic over a
globally average temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and,
on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer
projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to
contemplate a rollback of the industrial age.

Richard Lindzen

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