I (compulsively?) read the Letters to the Editor of the Greenville News. They are, in my mind, a frightening window on the psyche of a particular, vocal segment of the US population. Filled with accusations of Obama-led socialism (though, so far, absent of birthers), Al Gore hypocrisy, and general looniness of all kinds, it's like Fox News filtered through the League of the South.
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Editorial and News
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I'm glad to see that folks are finally doing what I said we should do back in 1994, which is call it climate change instead of global warming. If we had started out admitting we weren't positive about anything except that the climate WILL change, we would not have to deal with some of this. Most "climate change" deniers are NOT denying climate change . .they are denying global warming. And they are tired of hearing "humans did it, humans did it" when we have ample data to support regular, cyclic climate change that pre-dates humanity by a billion or more years.
And my opinion is the same today as it was in discussions about this on Usenet and Fidonet as far back as 1994. The climate is changing. Whether or not it will be warming is open to debate (as I sit here shivering in the middle of August in California). If humans are as responsible as some folks would have you believe and we wipe ourselves out . . .OH WELL. It's called evolution and something will rise up to replace us.
IMO, we waste our time arguing about what form the change will take. I think the majority of our energy and resources need to be directed to securing our food supply against any contingency and lessening the footprint of humanity.