"Perhaps Mr. Stephens and his ilk should step off their balconies every once in a while to test whether the arrogant Mr. Newton and his seventeenth century mathematics could not reasonably be debated on the certainty that they will fall to their deaths every time."
Now, now. Doubt is still warranted here. Perhaps they will merely break their backs, legs, necks and skulls, managing to survive (in a vegetative state) for many miserable years to come.
It's not just the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, but how fast it increases. The current rate is faster by orders of magnitude than earlier "mass extinction events" and we may well be looking at global temperatures that are 6 to 14°C warmer, sea levels rising over 300 meters, the oceans flooding 40% of the continents and mass extinctions of more than 50% of all the species on the planet.
Saying it doesn't seem to change opinion, believing it doesn't seem to get us up and marching on Washington, but maybe reading about it (in another ten thousand years) may well cause people to scratch their heads in wonder (if there are still people around with heads to scratch).
"Perhaps Mr. Stephens and his ilk should step off their balconies every once in a while to test whether the arrogant Mr. Newton and his seventeenth century mathematics could not reasonably be debated on the certainty that they will fall to their deaths every time."
Now, now. Doubt is still warranted here. Perhaps they will merely break their backs, legs, necks and skulls, managing to survive (in a vegetative state) for many miserable years to come.
There's a Cheshire Cat smiling at all this from strange somewhere, but it's the only thing that can be seen that's smiling.
It's not just the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, but how fast it increases. The current rate is faster by orders of magnitude than earlier "mass extinction events" and we may well be looking at global temperatures that are 6 to 14°C warmer, sea levels rising over 300 meters, the oceans flooding 40% of the continents and mass extinctions of more than 50% of all the species on the planet.
Saying it doesn't seem to change opinion, believing it doesn't seem to get us up and marching on Washington, but maybe reading about it (in another ten thousand years) may well cause people to scratch their heads in wonder (if there are still people around with heads to scratch).