> A discussion about GW will, alas, rapidly decay into a 
> political-religious bun fight with all thinking missing. Which is a 
> shame.
> 
> GW, ie human caused warming, *IS*  *DEFINITELY* real.
> 
> :-)

Maybe. There was an interesting article in Scientific America a couple
of months ago that talked of a possible cyclic effect that seems to
have happened pre-human and caused several of the dinosaur extinctions.

> I personally *suspect* that present trends are towards vastly 
> overdoing the response, BUT I may very very well be wrong.

If the article is right, then we are highly underdoing the response. In
fact, it may not be people that have caused the problem, though we may
have made things worse.
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