From: John Beckett 

Richard B.  wrote in message
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> >I know you're using using humour here, but for anyone who might not have
> >heard, the story about lemmings committing mass suicide is a myth.
>
> Right, which makes a nice ancillary point about global warming.

Yes - any proposition may justly face later ridicule. Let's all bear that in mind.

Lemmings are hard to investigate, so the suicide myth was able to live
quite a long time, however the lemming situation is fairly straight
forward.

By contrast, the climate is one of the most complex things humans have
tried to understand, and early predictions about how humans may interact
with the climate are bound to be wrong in some degree.

I guess we'll find out which side of the climate debate deserves ridicule
in twenty or so years.

John

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