Hi C. Steele,

It's not just the rate so much as the gap between the rate of increase and the rate of government response: what sort of difference do the various mechanisms and remedies and policies implemented by governments make ? Are they closing that gap, or making no difference ?

If they are making no difference, then it doesn't matter how small the rate of increase is, it is extremely serious.

If those measures do make a difference, then the question is: can those measures close the gap, and how quickly, no matter how great the rate of change might be ?

And how will we know, one way or the other ?

How's that ? Does that make sense ?

Cheers,

Joe

OK...its still undecided as to what and that it is.....time will only tell the true facts.

Time will judge what and if....of what we are doing to this planet.

Oh....just off topic just for a second....7 straight games QLD:) well done:)

NSW will come back!....:)

All the best.

ccc

Dear Loudmouth,

To be quite frank not much at all, but it probably a good note to conclude with.

Hi C. Steele and Plant,

But that is a major part of the problem - with respect, you look at the rates of sea-level rise, temperature-rise, glacier retreat, polar-bear marooning, etc., as if that is the be-all and end-all, and neglect what can be done about any of it. I suspect - please don't take offence - that many environmentalists are sort of smugly satisfied that terrible things await us and there's nothing (they seem to fervently hope) that can be done about it all, nyah, nyah !

Just suppose: the means of effectively combatting all the evils of AGW are many and varied, from tree-planting, developing cheap renewable forms of energy, extracting CO2 from the atmosphere and combining it with other chemicals to form inert substances, CaCO3 or whatever, CO2 capture at point of production, etc. And just suppose that all of these mechanisms put together actually worked to avoid CO2 production, use up what CO2 is already in the atmosphere, and to suck it out of the air.

Would you actually mind if human ingenuity could reduce AGW to a non-problem, say in the next century ?

Best wishes,

Joe

"To be quite frank not much at all.....csteele,....lol...and look who's in the box:)(ten rats in one)....you silly people:)

Basically csteele, from your side of the fence....I'll take it as a complement.

cc

After reading all 5 times over, your all still as thick as you are conned. 7 billion people, and all is going to be fine:)...lol...Australians have to be the most ridiculous people I have ever seen.

Rapid Climate change and the overpopulated world you call home, is your IQ to what you think wont happen.

You may as well all become Queenslanders!....They have about as much commonsense as you do;) lol....and they say the sun doesn't shine:)

7 billion people.......Oh dear......I think the whole world should become Australian;)

I don't know what some of you think....but its not brains.

If you want to throw mud......you better make it stick.

More imports needed.....20%

Now! where was I?

Smile:)

cc