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Skriven 2005-10-11 08:33:50 av Adam (1:379/45)
     Kommentar till en text av Mark (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Dial down the Sun?
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From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"@the field.near the bridge">

Mark wrote:
> "John Beckett" <FirstnameSurname@compuserve.com.omit> wrote: ... All I'm
> asking is for people to have a little humility in the face of what
> nature might hand out to humanity. You don't have to dump your car and air
> conditioner etc, just keep in mind that it may turn out that 6 billion
> people driving cars etc may have some bad side effects that we should look
> out for.
>
> That's a perfectly reasonable position and I don't disagree in the least.
> You're not, nor are the others here in the global warming camp, proposing
> implementing solutions based on incomplete science. The problem is many are
> calling for just that, and loudly. If there weren't a sufficient number of
> skeptics out there, the US would have signed on to Kyoto and we'd be dialing
> down our productivity and damaging our economy already.
>
> On the other hand, taking actions such as changing propellants in aerosol
> cans and eliminating Freon in air conditioning systems in order to eliminate
> CFCs and prevent harm to the ozone layer is an example of a worthwhile
> action to take.
>
>
crap.

A) What science is ever "complete"?

B) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4319574.stm

"All the delaying tactics, denials and obfuscations bring to mind what happened
in 1974 to two American scientists, Professor Sherwood Roland and Dr Mario
Molina. They coolly set out the evidence that the chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
used in refrigeration, aerosols and air conditioning were eating at the ozone
layer which protects mankind and plants from dangerous ultraviolet radiation.

  They were at once smeared as scaremongers. The manufacturers ran an
all too successful campaign to fog the issue. A lazy media bought into it. The
public got bored and bamboozled. And as they did so, millions more tons of the
pollutant were added to the atmosphere.

Thirteen years later when the world finally woke up to an ozone hole bigger
than anyone had predicted, there was a swift international agreement - led by
the US - to find alternatives to the CFCs. In the meantime, great damage had
been done.

Winston Churchill back in the 1930s had this to say about another government
that didn't believe a threat was real. As the Chamberlain Cabinet dithered
about Hitler, Churchill warned: "They go on in strange paradox, decided only to
be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity,
all powerful to be impotent."

And he concluded: "The era of procrastination, of soothing and baffling
expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a
period of consequences." "

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