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<div>After watching Craig Venter discuss his life and work, as portrayed in his book, "A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life," on C-Span, a presentation during which he emphasized the risks of the global experiment in climate change posed by the huge atmospheric CO2 emissions that may result from China and India industrializing, based on a fossil fueled model, let alone the USA and Europe, I was impressed. He stated simply, "I am an experimental scientist, but this is an experiment I do not want to conduct," referring to CO2 emission induced climate change. And this is exactly the point. Conceding the uncertainty in the science of climate change, do we wish to take the risk of inducing the IPCC predictions of the high end of the damage that anthropogenic climate change may induce? Is this experiment worth the risk?</div>
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<div>A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life</div>
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<div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div>