The fact that increased concentrations of greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere are causing global climate change, much more serious than just global warming, should not be controversial. The pace at which it is occurring, what climate changes will occur where and when, what the impacts of these changes will be, whether we have reached the point where change becomes irreversible, etc. should be the subject of debate and continued research. The only reason why climate change is controversial is greed - too many of us are unwilling to make the sacrifices which will be necessary to insure that our environment is protected for future generations.
Robert Mowbray -------------- Original message from William Silvert <cien...@silvert.org>: -------------- > This cheery news seems inconsistent with recent reports of large areas of > ice breaking off from Antarctica. Perhaps someone knowledgable who is not an > "expert" (fanatic) but knows what he is talking about could clarify the > situation. Someone who is neither using fear and terror to get research > funding nor trying to cut up Al Gore into bite-sized chunks to feed to the > exploding population of polar bears. > > In any case, there are a lot of threats ahead of us, and temperature > increases and sea level rise are only some of them. Others, like dissolved > CO2 in the oceans, are serious and not so controversial. > > Bill Silvert
