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  As John says at #7, we could write pages on this and get nowhere but confused.
  
  The thing that annoys me is that climate prediction is an amazingly complex problem that scientists use a fantastic amount of computing power for in generating theories, but politicians worldwide have just jumped on the CO2 effect as it's something that can be taxed and used to control us - it's not simply a straightforward relationship between CO2 levels and rate of warming, and there are arguements that can be made for increased CO2 levels being a good thing.
  
  On a lighter note I saw a very good argument that global warming was due to lack of pirates. The people putting it forward had collected reports of pirate activity over the last couple of hundred years and plotted a graph against global temperatures and there was a straight line. The great thing is over the last few years there has been some evidence collected that temperatures are going down, at the same time that pirate activity in the Indian Ocean has increased, proving the theory. All nonsense of course but making the point that we shouldn't make simple assumptions about complex problems.

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