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Not that I buy into it, but...if we can assume, for the moment, everything the global warming alarmists believe is true...I think I'd rather see the whitecaps rolling over the peak of Mount Everest rather than do what the activists want done.

p>The past century has produced a lot of "crises" that would be "solved" by the same solution---turn everything over to big and extra-constitutional government, and everything will be fine. The "solution" to global warming is just more of the same. br> -- Robert Nowall br> Cape Coral, Florida /p>

Even if global warming is 100% human-caused, I am very skeptical of the ability of any body, governmental or otherwise, to actually undertake and enforce "corrective" action against global warming. The liberal doomsdayers and their leader Al Gore can bemoan the existence of global warming, but what are they seriously intending to do about it? Is Gore going to shut down his power-gobbling Tennessee mansion and move to a small apartment in Nashville to set an example?

If the situation is anywhere near as dire as we are being told, it will require draconian measures. The way I see it, if this "crisis" is human-caused, there are only two possible solutions. Either we reject the modern, Western lifestyle that is now being adopted throughout much of the developing world (perhaps we could insist that the people of China and India give up their newly acquired automobiles and go back to their bicycles) or we reduce the human population. We all know that neither of these options are feasible or even sensible, but given the calamity that is being predicted by the left, I can't think of any other approaches that will actually get results. I hear about a lot of baby steps being suggested, like compact fluorescent light bulbs, but they are all irrelevant in terms of expected results.

p>By the way, I wonder how many Newsweek readers found it ironic that Al Gore is credited, in part, with sounding the global warming alarm as early as 1988, despite the fact that he and Bubba presided over the "age of the SUV" and the historically cheap gasoline of the mid- to late-1990s. When gasoline was selling for under $1 a gallon during the Clinton administration, I can't recall Gore ever proposing a stiff new tax to help discourage consumption. Instead, gasoline remained cheap for many years, leading to an explosion of gas hogging vehicles. I wonder how many minivan-driving soccer moms will switch to sub-compacts if their hero Hillary tells them to? br> -- Kevin Cecotti

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