[ RadSafe ] Global Warming

[garyi at trinityphysics.com]

Jess, you're right that we don't know. Since that is true, and since it turns out that the earth, 
regardless of any "scientific concensus", isn't going to blow up tomorrow, don't you think it 
would be a good idea to hold up on drastic measures until we have real reasons to 
implement them? 

I'm all for fresh air. I deplore smoking - glad that you agree. My mother and grandfather died 
of lung Ca and emphysema - both lifelong smokers. 

The radical changes being proposed are not going to stop pollution. They are just going to 
make energy really really expensive and kill an already severely weak economy. 

Did you hear that the Nepal cabinet just held a meeting atop Everest to highlight the dangers 
of Global Warming? Doesn't that seem incredibly absurd in light of recent revelations? And 
the US president seems determined to ignore the same revelations. We've all heard the 
phrase "global warming denier". What would the opposite term be? When I refer to 
otherwise smart people who pretend that certain facts don't exist, I like to use the phrase, 
"liar". If they aren't that smart, I make allowances. 

You want to stop pollution? Great, but couldn't we at least switch to another energy source 
before we have to turn out the lights and park the cars? 

Gary Isenhower 

On 5 Dec 2009 at 20:40, Jess Addis wrote: 

I just don't think we can know what we don't know. How many 
billion/trillion metric tons of pollutants/stuff (yes that's a 
technical term) can we continue to pump into our paper thin atmosphere 
and hope that the earth can absorb or sequester it. 

Sun spot activity? Orbital perturbations? Etc. etc. - yes they occur. 
But we don't have enough data to understand the interrelationships and 
complexity of all those variables. We just can't know what we don't 
know. 

At some point, would be prudent to put less of that stuff into our 
atmosphere? Are we there yet, and how do we know? How many people 
would we allow to sit inside our homes and smoke cigarettes on a 
continuing basis before we might consider opening a window? 

Yes, I'm all for nuclear power and I'm am probably pretty similar 
socially and politically to many, if not most the "people in power in 
Washington now of the present admin". I've made most of my living 
from nuclear power and research for most of my working lifetime. 

Jess Addis, RSO 
Clemson University 



December 4, 2009 

Variations in global temperature over the last 100 years are well 
correlated to sunspot activity. Here is one theory I found in the