<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>I can argue about this all day on Facebook or Twitter (and sometimes do, whether trolling or serious depends on the day). Let's reign it back in to network operations concerns.<br><br><div><span name="x"></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>http://www.ics-il.com<br><br>Midwest-IX<br>http://www.midwest-ix.com<span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Brandon Svec via NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org><br><b>To: </b>"Mel Beckman" <mel@beckman.org><br><b>Cc: </b>"Rich Kulawiec" <rsk@gsp.org>, nanog@nanog.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, February 22, 2021 1:43:22 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 11:37 AM Mel Beckman <<a href="mailto:mel@beckman.org" target="_blank">mel@beckman.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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Either weather events are getting worse, or they aren’t. </blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">No, nothing is so black and white. Certainly not science.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I provided solid evidence that they are diminishing. </blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">No, you didn't. You shared an opinion piece written by the president of a science denying lobbying group funded by Exxon Mobil</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The truth of this issue is important to NANOG, because we build the infrastructure that runs the Internet, and we can’t afford to waste finite resources on alarmist claims. <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">That I can partially agree with. I would say even if science is 100% wrong about climate change and what is causing it, it is still a good investment to prepare for the unexpected and unprecedented when it comes to building and supporting resilient systems.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Best</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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> On Feb 22, 2021, at 10:23 AM, Rich Kulawiec <<a href="mailto:rsk@gsp.org" target="_blank">rsk@gsp.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 05:48:06PM +0000, Mel Beckman wrote:<br>
>> Sorry Global Warmists,<br>
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> Right. Sure. Also, the earth is 6,000 years old (and flat), the moon<br>
> landings were faked, creationism is real, dinosaurs and humans co-existed,<br>
> vaccines cause autism, Elvis is alive, and...how does that line go? Oh,<br>
> right: artificial sweeteners are safe, WMDs were in Iraq, and Anna Nicole<br>
> married for love. [shout-out to Levon Helm]<br>
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> This trash doesn't deserve rebuttal: it deserves ridicule.<br>
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> ---rsk<br>
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