[C38] I Believe I Can Fly

[Joseph Launie]

Les,
     This topic affects us all. The oceans do not come off too well if 
we do nothing. Joe Launie/Macavity

On 11/19/2010 2:02 PM, Les wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 07:55 -0500, Bill Haynes wrote:
>    
>> Paul, Thomas Friedman published an article yesterday that reflects my
>> thoughts on Climate Change extremely well. I have extracted two
>> paragraphs from it.  Check it out and let me know what you think.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>> I Believe I Can Fly
>>
>> Reading the headlines these days, I can’t help but repeat this truism:
>> If you jump off the top of an 80-story building, for 79 floors you can
>> think you’re flying. It’s the sudden stop at the end that tells you
>> you’re not. It’s striking to me how many leaders and nations are
>> behaving today as though they think they can fly — and ignoring that
>> sudden stop at the end that’s sure to come.
>>
>> Closer to home, America’s climate-deniers mounted an effective
>> disinformation campaign that made “climate change” a four-letter word
>> in the Republican Party. This undermined efforts to get a clean energy
>> bill — the sort that might break our addiction to oil and take money
>> away from the people our soldiers are fighting in the Middle East. And
>> all of this happened in 2010, which is on track to be the Earth’s
>> hottest year on record. So here’s the math: 98 climate scientists out
>> of 100 will tell you that man’s continued carbon emissions pose the
>> risk of disruptive climate change this century. Two out of 100 will
>> tell you it doesn’t. And “conservatives” today tell you to bet on the
>> two. If the climate-deniers are right — but we combat climate change
>> anyway — we’ll have slightly higher energy prices but cleaner air,
>> more renewable energy, a stronger dollar, more innovative industries
>> and enemies with less money. If the deniers are wrong and we do
>> nothing, your kids will meet the sudden stop at the end.
>>
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> Please do not put politics in this mix.  There are different places to
> post this stuff.
>
> 	As an rabid follower of data, with great experience in parsing data,
> including datamining, there are many things I could say, but you
> wouldn't believe them, and I will never believe there is anything like a
> 98% agreement among real scientists.
>
> 	So lets not go down that road.  This is a place for stuff related to
> our boats.
>
> 	Thank you.
>
> Regards,
> Les H
>
>
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