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Old 10-17-2007, 12:13 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by MelBridgeman View Post
Glaciers used to cover calgary and much of canada...then they started to receded....and they still are since the last ice age was a only 10,000 years ago - which is a second on the earth's clock.

The sun which without there would no life and the single biggest factor in driving the earths climate, which is so large it could fit a million planet earth's inside of it, and yet we arrogant humans still think that we have the knowledge to conclude that we are the ones now driving our climate or effecting it in such a massive way....
I think the contention is that we are effecting a small amount of change that might produce some undesirable effects (for some)

That doesn't seem arrogant to me. I would hate to see trillions of dollars flushed away in an effort to keep things the same instead of just letting people adapt.
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