[Info-vax] Terrible news for Mr VAXman

[JF Mezei]

Neil Rieck wrote:

> One last point: some scientists are convinced that current global
> warming of our climate (which is not the same as weather) was caused
> by the Milankovitch Cycles. They claim this warming trend started at
> the end of the previous ice age 11,600 years ago, and that warming
> would have happened whether we were here or not (but that our
> industrial presence hurried warming along).


The warming recorded in the last 50 years is way faster than any
cyclical pattern that occurs naturally. So if humnan activities that
cause warming occur during a natural "up" cycle, it will make it even
harder to curb temperature rises.


> Think of this a some sort of cosmic survival test.

Why not just give up. Let the planet kill us, give itself a couple dozen
thousand years to clean up and starts anew again ?


BTW, "global warming" entails an increase in more violent weather, not
just average temperture increases.  There are costs to violent weather,
be it Kathina in New Orleans (and Gulf) or some massive blizzard that
paralises the Eastern USA for a few days, instead of sending the snow to
Canada as it should have.

Eurostar is another example of costs due to wether patterns that had not
been planned for.


And of course, when sea levels rise, how much of New York City will
flood regularly ?  And the government of Florida may see its tax
revenues dwindlw if large swaths of Florida become part of the ocean and
un-inhabitable due to sea level rise.

Thos opposed to taking action on globl warming always point to the extra
costs for fossil fuels. They never talk about the cost to the economy of
that weather.