[C38] I Believe I Can Fly

[Don Strong]

Les and Joe: Ocean acidification is an extremely serious consequence of 
increased atmospheric CO2.
Don

On 11/19/10 11:27 PM, Joseph Launie wrote:
> 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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Donald R. Strong
Professor
Dept. of Evolution and Ecology
University of California, Davis 95616