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Originally Posted by Graham
By the time we *have* the proof it may well be too late to do anything.
So would it do any *harm* to try to reduce our energy usages, switch to more efficient methods of products and reduce the amount of pollution (including so-called "greenhouse gasses") we're pumping into the air *just in case*?
Surely that's better than, in a hundred years time saying "oops, looks like the science *is* proven, pity it's too late to do anything about it"...
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Which part of "By the time we *have* the proof it may well be too late to do anything." did you not understand?
Knee-jerk reactions to terrorist attacks are not going to bring about catastrophic changes to the planet that could have devastating results for billions of people!
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Reducing energy use, and being more efficient is what would happen even without people warning of the threat of Global Warming.
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Would it? Try convincing the "Dirty Man of the World" (ie the USA) to do that, then!!
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But I am not going to sell my car and live up a tree on something that's pure guesswork atm.
They guessed that the earth was flat until Columbus sailed around it.
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*WHOOOP* *WHOOOP* *WHOOOP*
Punky, if you're going to make comments like this, you *really* should check your facts first otherwise you're going to look *very* silly.
*NOBODY* has said "sell your car". *NOBODY* has said "live up a tree". So don't try the Straw Man tactic again, please.
Oh and the world was *KNOWN* to be round long before Columbus, all he claimed was that he could said to the Indies by going *west* (and he cheated by taking the smallest figure for the size of the world and then fiddling that down even more) if it wasn't that the Bahamas (and not America!) were in the way, he'd have failed!