re: #238 dentate

That, and your avatar, remind me of the Global Warming thing. Have any of those folks looked at the coastline of Southeast Asia over the last 18,000 years? Which is the “normal” coastline, and what is the Earth’s “normal” temperature, and why do we think that controlling carbon emissions is going to preserve things the way they are at this moment in time? There too, the need to push an agenda blocks rational thought.

dentate: I don’t know anybody who argues that controlling carbon emissions is going to “preserve things the way they are at this moment in time.” Best, best, best case scenario, controlling those emissions could partly mitigate the ongoing damage to our way of life.

As to the rest of our question, there are several scientific books on just that subject. I’ve read a couple of them, and as I can’t disprove their statistics or their reasoning, I accept their conclusions.