From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ec3b1a84cab8fc8a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-07 07:12:16 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!yellow.newsread.com!bad-news.newsread.com!netaxs.com!newsread.com!news-xfer.siscom.net!news-out.nuthinbutnews.com!propagator!feed2.newsfeeds.com!newsfeeds.com!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3B970152.4AC6C6E3@PublicPropertySoftware.com> <3B9795E1.54B12E70@worldnet.att.net> <9n8put$67u$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: WAY OFF TOPIC was: Re: Ada and the NMD Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 10:12:07 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 14:12:07 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12893 Date: 2001-09-07T14:12:07+00:00 List-Id: In article <9n8put$67u$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says... > >If there is clear and convincing evidence that X is a problem and the public >believes that Y is a practical solution to the problem, you'll see political >action. Despite what people may choose to believe and/or advocate, there is >no overwhelming, clear, convincing evidence that the earth is in imminent >danger of destruction because of CO2, global warming, global cooling or >whatever the latest "threat" is. (Remember that for an extremely large >number of species on this planet, CO2 is a *good* thing - hence expect them >to flourish.) Even accepting that there is some real threat here, it is not >at all clear that any or all of the solutions proposed by various advocates >are going to be practical and effective. Hence, you get what we've got - >political ambivalence. That's pretty much where I am too. I do personally *suspect* there is a problem, but the evidence that there is one is certianly not all in, or even the evidnece as to what it is. I remember vividly back in the '70 people telling me at school that we'd run totally out of oil by 2000. Realise that I grew up in Tulsa Oklahoma, which at the time styled itslef as the Oil Capital of the world. Our entire economy here was based on it. If there was one place in the world immune to anti-oil environmentalists, it was Tulsa. So I know people seriously believed this. Quite a few laws were passed to try to help "fix" this problem. Of course nothing even remotely like that has happened. Note that I'm not saying I think there's no problem. I personally think there is. I just don't know exactly what it is yet. :-) --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com