<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Climber scales New York Times building with climate message]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by archigeek http://www.grist.org/article/scale/ Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:45:42 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/scale/1 Hmm,

...so, apparently he was't nuts, just embracing a cause which doesn't have as much cache as GW. Sad. So much greed on our lovely Earth, and not enough generosity, self-sacrifice and humility.

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...so, apparently he was't nuts, just embracing a cause which doesn't have as much cache as GW. Sad. So much greed on our lovely Earth, and not enough generosity, self-sacrifice and humility.

]]> Comment #2 by MAD MAC http://www.grist.org/article/scale/ Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:58:10 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/scale/2 Yeah right

"Global warming kills more people than a 9/11 every week,"

According to Paul Ehrlich, in the mid - 70s he claimed that "Gobal cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people in poorer countries. If something is not done it will probably lead to world famine and possibly world war, and this all by the year 2000."

Every single storm or draught or flood is now being attributed to "climate change". Come on. When people make statements like this they hurt the movement, because there's no credibility in them. On the BBC climate change is discussed as if all the facts were in and EVERY weather event is attributed to it. It's ridiculous.

The desertification of North Africa, which was a savana at one time, has been going on for over five thousands years and steadily expanding south all of the time. Yet the BBC recently reported drought in Somalia as being caused by "climate change" without offering a shred of proof.

I am not contending that CO2 and other dumping into the atmosphere is harmless, or a good idea. But making exaggerated claims which have no basis in fact hurts the movement to make realistic adjustments in our way of life and in how we deal with an ever more crowded planet.

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"Global warming kills more people than a 9/11 every week,"

According to Paul Ehrlich, in the mid - 70s he claimed that "Gobal cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people in poorer countries. If something is not done it will probably lead to world famine and possibly world war, and this all by the year 2000."

Every single storm or draught or flood is now being attributed to "climate change". Come on. When people make statements like this they hurt the movement, because there's no credibility in them. On the BBC climate change is discussed as if all the facts were in and EVERY weather event is attributed to it. It's ridiculous.

The desertification of North Africa, which was a savana at one time, has been going on for over five thousands years and steadily expanding south all of the time. Yet the BBC recently reported drought in Somalia as being caused by "climate change" without offering a shred of proof.

I am not contending that CO2 and other dumping into the atmosphere is harmless, or a good idea. But making exaggerated claims which have no basis in fact hurts the movement to make realistic adjustments in our way of life and in how we deal with an ever more crowded planet.

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