Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Trevor Wilson Newsgroups: sci.physics,talk.politics.guns,alt.checkmate Subject: Re: UN Climate Change Launches First-Ever Annual Report Date: Sun, 13 May 2018 08:56:29 +1000 Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net geV3BP/ZRKaYgNg9200PlQm/5UBYhL2CjXrjftD8+49cLRw3UQ Cancel-Lock: sha1:LE5uS+GQ9HNet1WteewQ7Dx1Vwg= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 180512-4, 13/05/2018), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:685122 talk.politics.guns:1085464 alt.checkmate:164738 On 13/05/2018 3:55 AM, Wally W. wrote: > On Sat, 12 May 2018 08:57:03 -0400, kensi wrote: > >> UN Climate Change today launched its first-ever Annual Report, > > Maybe it will also be its last? **Unlikely. > > >> laying >> out the key 2017 achievements and pointing to the future of the climate >> change process. "Climate Change is the single biggest threat to life, >> security and prosperity on Earth," > > That's deluded. **Well, no, it isn't. It's quite factual. > > It pales in comparison to the threat from a big ass asteroid. > **Perhaps. * When do you expect a "big ass asteroid" to hit? * What can we do to prevent a "big ass asteroid" from hitting Earth? * Given the possibility that a "big ass asteroid" may hit us sometime in the (unspecified) future, should we plan to find a way to deal with that eventuality? * Given the fact that global warming is occurring right now and it's effects are being felt right now, do you think we should deal with the problem now? * Do you think it is possible that we can (try to) deal with global warming and a "big ass asteroid" simultaneously? Or can 7.5 billion humans only deal with one problem at a time? BTW: NASA and other organisations already track "big ass asteroids" so we can prepare for such an event. -- Trevor Wilson www.rageaudio.com.au