<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">You guys build how you want. At 6x7 we are building to prepare for possible climactic shifts. The origin need not be anthropogenic, but that doesn’t look good.<div><br></div><div>“Doing nothing” isn’t really an option, and “doing what republicans want because they say so and they’re my dad” isn’t a good argument.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Nor is it a personality.<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE<br class="">6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC <br class="">CEO <br class=""><a href="mailto:ben@6by7.net" class="">ben@6by7.net</a><br class="">"The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class="">FCC License KJ6FJJ<br class=""></span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sent from my iPhone via RFC1149.</span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 22, 2021, at 11:35 AM, Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>Rich,</span><br><span></span><br><span>Calling my opposing argument “trash”, and then falsely linking it to unrelated theories on vaccines, evolution, moon landings, and dietary supplements, is intellectually dishonest and professionally rude. Why don’t you respond to the facts raised in the article? Does your religion not permit that?</span><br><span></span><br><span>Either weather events are getting worse, or they aren’t. I provided solid evidence that they are diminishing. 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. </span><br><span></span><br><span> -mel</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Feb 22, 2021, at 10:23 AM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 05:48:06PM +0000, Mel Beckman wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Sorry Global Warmists,</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Right. Sure. Also, the earth is 6,000 years old (and flat), the moon</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>landings were faked, creationism is real, dinosaurs and humans co-existed,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>vaccines cause autism, Elvis is alive, and...how does that line go? Oh,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>right: artificial sweeteners are safe, WMDs were in Iraq, and Anna Nicole</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>married for love. [shout-out to Levon Helm]</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>This trash doesn't deserve rebuttal: it deserves ridicule.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>---rsk</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>