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From: "Glenn Meadows"
The fix would most likely fall under the "Law of unexpected consequences".
We've been bit by many of those over the years.
--
Glenn M.
"Mark" wrote in message
news:45986699$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>I don't disagree at all with your position John. My worry is exactly that
>the "fix" is going to be worse than doing nothing, because
the fix is not
>credibly supported by facts. I'm entirely serious in my thought that our
>contribution to warming may be what saves us down the road when the natural
>cycle turns cold again.
>
> "John Beckett" wrote in message
> news:q2mgp2l16vpl04uo770qdkhbqfom1s8rcl{at}4ax.com...
>> "Mark" wrote in message
>> news::
>>> My personal feeling on it (which doesn't count from a scientific point
>>> of
>>> view) is that global warming is better than it is bad and needs no
>>> fixing.
>>
>> There have been some very interesting articles written about the
>> principle
>> that if you take a complex system (like Earth's weather), that there are
>> billions more ways to have a bad result than there are to have a good
>> result.
>>
>> So, if you start out with something that current life is happy with, and
>> you make a change, it is likely that the change will result in something
>> that is NOT a good result for current life.
>>
>> This is not an issue of comfort. We're talking about possible major
>> changes to food supply, not to mention what would result from millions of
>> refugees.
>>
>> There's plenty of reason to worry, but it is less clear what to do.
>>
>> John
>>
>
>
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