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Article #83Re: A simple, cost-free way to cut your annual household CO2 emissions by tonnes.
From: John Henderson
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:57
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:57
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spammer wrote:
> The last time that happened there was only one continent on
> Earth. The stagnent ocean spewed the CH4 upon the start of
> plate tectonic shift. With the split continents, the ocean can
> and does move to ensure there will be no stagnation and the
> release of CH4 is gradual.
We don't know that.
> You can err on the side of anything you like, but we have no
> ability to change what the planet is going to do.
I disagree both philosophically and scientifically.
Philosophically, that view is fatalism. I do not subscribe to
it.
Scientifically, Complexity Theory (was known as Chaos Theory)
now recognizes that tiny causes can and often do have huge
repercussions ("the butterfly effect"). It was an earlier,
discredited paradigm which held that big effects required big
causes.
We're clearly going to have to disagree on some things.
John
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