<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/21/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Rumelhart</b> <<a href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">godshatter@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span></div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">Paul wrote on global warming:</span></div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">But that's not what I'm<br>hearing. "Something our grandchildren will have to deal with" seems to
<br>be another way to say "our worst predictions could end up that way if<br>nobody does anything about it for the next century and our models are<br>correct". </blockquote>
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<div>Given it "seems" you are not taking seriously the empirical findings, and predictions, regarding global warming, supported by the scientific consensus among climate scientists, well...</div>
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<div>Maybe you should, if you have not, study MIT climate scientist Richard Lindzen's skeptical approach to the IPCC. Though most climate scientists disagree with Lindzen, he might agree to some extent with your approach to modeling of climate science. I have heard him interviewed, and his arguments sounded somewhat like yours. Lindzen is one of the favorites quoted by the "global warming is too uncertain to take dramatic action on greenhouse gas emissions" club. He can make a convincing case, to a layman such as myself. But I have read too many other climate scientists who disagree with him, to believe his skepticism is based on the best science, and not his motivation to be a "brilliant iconoclast" in the scientific community. That's OK. Science needs brilliant iconoclasts to question what might otherwise be a too comfortable and complacent conformity.
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<div><a href="http://www-eaps.mit.edu/faculty/lindzen.htm">http://www-eaps.mit.edu/faculty/lindzen.htm</a></div>
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<div>Again, I suggest you contact climate scientists who are issuing the science based warnings on greenhouse gas emissions that I reference, scientists working with the IPCC, or the Union of Concerned Scientists, or the Stern Report, to inform them of their errors. Because according to many of these scientists, we are already committed to disruptive climate change with current atmospheric CO2 levels at about 430 ppm. And doing nothing to lower emissions till the end of the century...well... You can read the predictions.
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<div>Ted Moffett</div><br>