As one of the heretics who disavows Al Gore sainthood, I'm not sure sharing our experiences has any merit beyond the joy of reminiscing. I fall in the category of the "Deniers", but I'm not going to argue that the changes you've experience over your years aren't real. As accurate as our observations may be of the climate changes over our lifetimes, they say nothing of the main point in the Global Warming/Climate Change problem-whether it man made or not. I don't believe it is, although I admit I'm not a scientist, but these guys are and seem to believe the question is not nearly as settled as Al Gore and PE Obama want us to believe. http://tinyurl.com/5laabm Weather and climate change, I agree, they have throughout time; seems a bit silly to think we can keep the world from changing. The cap and trade schemes that our world leaders want to impose seem like a bunch of crap barely able to mitigate Al Gores jetsetting. So there I am messing up all the consensus, but I think Craig already knew where I'd come down on this! From what I've read the change in CO2 from what 300 to 385 PARTS PER MILLION isn't going to end the world as we know it. But I could be wrong-could you? Mark -----Original Message----- I know you're as aware of all that as I am. But our culture is only now thinking seriously of the consequences of climate change and there are still people who are in deep denial. To them it's all weather. We're all worried about what they now call our "carbon footprint" and have been for years, if not decades. But since we now have a President-elect who seems to share our concerns, I'm thinking that it's time for us to be more out-front about how we feel about the environment. Sharing our experiences is more important now than ever. Craig Jungers Moses Lake, WA *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Dec 17 2008 - 19:04:50 PST
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