Letters to the Editor
-
The greatest experiment...
I saw a great talk by Nate Lewis at Cal Tech last spring. You can see and hear that talk on his website through the Cal Tech server at http://nsl.caltech.edu/energy.html at the bottom of the page.
Anyway, he calls global warming the greatest experiment we have ever done. This is a very!! complex situation that cannot be summed up by slogans or just assuming the planet will warm. The way he put it is that by continuing on the path we are on and not making major!! changes in our carbon output in the next 15 years we have committed to the greatest experiment ever undertaken in human history. We don't know the outcome, thus it is an experiment. It's just our collective choice whether or not we want to do that experiment or try to stick with status quo. I'm glad you guys learned a little science along the way and have some more to discuss when someone brings up the topic. Check out that talk and I'll bet you think that Al Gore is treading lightly. I haven't seen the movie, like I said, so I don't know. If only they would let progressive films into the land of Walmart...sigh...