If It Hadn't Been For

Science Always Uses Metaphor.

No One Who Has Experienced The Intense Involvement Of Computer Modeling Would Deny That The Temptation Exists To Use Any Data Input That Will Enable One To Continue Playing What Is Perhaps The Ultimate Game Of Solitaire.

Climatologists Are All Agreed That We'd Be Lucky To See The End Of This Century Without The World Being A Totally Different Place, And Being 8 Or 9 Degrees Hotter On Average.

We Are The Intelligent Elite Among Animal Life On Earth And Whatever Our Mistakes, [earth] Needs Us. This May Seem An Odd Statement After All That I Have Said About The Way 20th Century Humans Became Almost A Planetary Disease Organism. But It Has Taken [earth] 2.5 Billion Years To Evolve An Animal That Can Think And Communicate Its Thoughts. If We Become Extinct She Has Little Chance Of Evolving Another.

Our Planet Consists Largely Of Lumps Of Fall-out From A Star-sized Hydrogen Bomb. Within Our Bodies, No Less Than Three Million Atoms Rendered Unstable In That Event Still Erupt Every Minute, Releasing A Tiny Fraction Of The Energy Stored From That Fierce Fire Of Long Ago.