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Mr. Romm takes a prophetic tone but we must not forget that there is such a thing as false prophecy. Remember the doom and gloom about rapid population growth? The very economic growth that the greenies decry has been responsible for a rapid decline in population growth, to the point where whole nations of Europe are dwindling away. IAC, the inconvenient truth about the industrial revolution is that it has been driven by hyprocarbon resources and by a need to provide ever large populations with more and more goods in markets that have grown exponentially. Science has played an essential role in all this, as have the political ambitions of the nations. Assuming that this growth is responsible for glorbal warming even in th slightest degree, the question is how low we can turn the thermostat without requiring a discormfort that chills everyone in the house, including the scientists? Ask the very scientists who are aiming to feather their own nests a the expense of the rests of us, how they will be held to account if we are all reduced to riding bicycles. The politicians who are pushing their ideas don't care because they will all be out of office, indeed be dead and gone ,when the crows come to feast on our carcasses.
