From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Possibly not. Research into the cause/effect of climate would still be
beneficial to those affected by the change.

 A pesky mini ice-age may be upon some parts of the globe no matter what
mankind does. Maybe Saddam's setting fire to the Kuwaiti oil wells was his
noble attempt to stop the freezing of Britain :-)

"Mark Hessey"  wrote in message
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>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:4015e2b6$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >   Volcanoes?  Cattle flatulence/methane gas? The Great Pumpkin?  Your
> guess
> > is as good as mine.
>
> Let's look at it from another angle then, lets assume that he's right,
that
> the UK will be under permafrost within decades. Is it really reasonable to
> assume, with such a short time frame, that if we turned off every human
> related "cause" - shut off the factories, parked the cars, stopped
exhaling,
> etc. - immediately, that this would alleviate the the imminent (pesky
word,
> that) problem?
>
>

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