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Barcelona, Cyprus -- water being brought in my ship. And no end in sight. The complexity of the changes we are undergoing is only hinted at in a news piece from BBC -- scientists believe that the changes wrought by man will be "masked" by a cooling trend . . . BUT that their computer models indicate that this masking will dissipate, and that the overall heating up of the planet will accelerate, or become more obvious, in just a few years. Such news just hints at the complexity of the problem of understanding the forces at work in our atmosphere, the interactions of sun, earth, sky, the currents of air and water that are not fully understood, yet that we depend upon to maintain the stability of our civilization. All those who pretend to see the "holes" in the "theories" of climate change are masking an ignorance and a wishful thinking, that, given the well-publicized changes in our glaciers and other ice packs planet wide, is not akin to whistling by the graveyard, but whistling TO the graveyard, and taking the rest of us with them.
