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16 Post author: PhilGoetz 11 January 2010 09:59PM

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Comment author: roland 12 January 2010 10:42:26PM *  -1 points [-]

You can't be serious. Sure, I get your point in regard to the cold winters and I know others who argue the same way, but the thing is, no one has an exact idea of what will change in the world once the temperature rises a few degrees. More melting of ice will change the salinitiy of the sea and cause a change in sea currents which might precipitate a new ice age, this is one possibility in which Moscow will become much colder.

There already were some extreme heat waves in Europe during summer that killed thousands of people.

Our biosphere is a complex system and how goes the saying? "Never change a running system."

Comment author: cousin_it 13 January 2010 10:59:14AM *  2 points [-]

no one has an exact idea of what will change in the world once the temperature rises a few degrees.

Huh? The Earth once was significantly warmer than now with no runaway consequences.