Hi Agnes,
I didn't mean that nothing happened at all; I meant that those in the general population that prepared for calamity by burying supplies were misled. Their investment was wasted. I agree some of the hype for Y2K was good in that folks gave the problem special attention and that was needed.

However, I don't agree that we need some hype for global warming. It isn't clear at all that CO2 emissions matter. Pollution is an entirely different matter for which we should always be vigilant.

>Charlie,
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>beg your pardon but
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>>... The Y2K issue ... Millions spent and when nothing happens ...
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>I can not support this.
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>For the first Berlins firefighters run back to the last reserve they have because there system broke down. That means they have patroled the streets with there cars in the hope to see the fire, because the whole computer aided dispatching was not available. In a night where every drunken plays with firecrackers. Was not in the big news, guess why.
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>The second one. We didn't even master the switch this year. The half of the debit cards here are (still) out of order because of an implementation failure in the cards handling the year 2010.
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>Maybe there was less trouble on Y2k because of the hype they have done?
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>So there also need some be a hype about global warming. Call it climate change if you deny warming, but there must be an effect.
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>OTOH on a geological scale it will have no big influence. World is homeostatic.
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>Agnes