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• Sunday, June 29, 2008 11:28 PM

  Warming... Cooling... CHANGE is the constant.

  What catastrophic climate change? You've been paying too much attention to the MEDIA and not to scientists and all of their "we think" and "might" and "maybe." We can't predict the weather a week from now and you think humans are going to die and the world is going to blow up because the CO2 has risen? I'd have to assume you've spent all of a half-second actually thinking about all of this.

  Twelve thousand years ago, the very spot on which I am sitting right now was under a mile of solid ice. Tampa, Florida was sixty miles from salt water. Japan would have been called the Kamchatka Peninsula on maps if there had been any then. It may have been joined to the mainland at the south, too.

  Yes, the Earth is always changing and now, for some egotistical reason, we think it should remain as it is now. We can't believe it's actually going to change! We MUST be the reason, right?

  Actually, if you think about it, this isn't mere lunacy. For the last few decades we've been raised to not think about issues that should concern us. We turn on the television or read a blog and immediately assume the roll of "Catcher of Wisdom" coming from others who have no idea what they're talking about OR they're making a few bucks.

  If every human on Earth was struck down stone-cold dead at this very moment, the Earth's climate would be different in a thousand years. It has been happening continuously for about five billion years. It's not going to stop because humans release less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

  There is nothing wrong with being green. I just wish a few more people would actually THINK about issues before they make themselves look like they don't think about anything at all.

  Thanks for your time.

  —traumatic Read traumatic's other letters
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