On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:48:29 +0100, Greg Hennessy wrote:

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:00:37 +0100, Paul Weaver
wrote:


Of course there are explanations, things like volcanic eruptions, and
I'm much more worried about a couple of Krakatoa or Tambora sized
volcanos (or worse, a Yellowstone)

Our green anti growth chums would blame that on global warming too.

That is precisely the problem. While polution from tranposrt, cars,
busses, lorries, etc, is a problem (I hate their fumes, especially busses.
But then I hate cigarette fumes too, of coursehthe greenies wouldn't dream
of banning smoking and it's poisonous fumes), which can and will be
solved, the fundamental point is the greens are luddites. They moan about
fossil fuels, so we build nuclear reactors. They moan about nuclear, so we
build Wind and hydro. Now they are moaning about how hydro plants disrupt
the river, and wind disrupts the climate. Perhaps we'll build solar, which
of coruse means producing lots of poisonous solar panels. I wonder what
they'll say about the Heat Chimney proposed in Austrailia? I'm sure
they'll come up with something wrong with fusion if we ever produce it.
Failing anything scientific they'll just throw out some crap movies like
Spiderman Two that imply a fusion plant will turn into a black hole if
it's disrupted (rather then automatically shut down as fusion is not self
sustaining with a plant larger then jupiter).