From: John Cuccia 

On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 23:46:29 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
>news:hdljp298q5u4f9oiatrsflinpfgd5tnu7t{at}4ax.com...
>
>> That question is irrelevant.  Whether or not the current warming phase
>> is human-caused or normal cyclical temperature variation is of no
>> import to the people who will be affected by the results.
>
>You're right. It's like a broken computer, the reason to the user that it
>isn't working is unimportant. But if your job is sysadmin and you have to
>come up with a solution then the reason is all that matters because that's
>going to dictate how you fix it.

The situations aren't quite analogous.  We can always fix (or replace)
broken computers.  If the earth is in a natural warming cycle we won't be
able to do anything except adapt.

In your analogy we'd probably be looking for a workaround rather than a fix.

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