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Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] IPCC's cost estimatesSIR – You described the estimated costs of mitigation in a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as "preposterous" for being too low ("Another week, another report", April 19th).

It would be just as preposterous for me to chastise Emily Nussbaum for not writing her columns in the style of Dr. Seuss as it is for her to criticize Stephen Colbert for not being an investigative journalist on "The Late Show" (On Television, April 17th).

As for Ben, Ms. Lessing concocts a fate for him that's as preposterous as it's predictable.

Each is as preposterous as the last.

The conclusion is not as preposterous as it might sound.

The idea is as preposterous as it is sinister.

It sounds not nearly as preposterous as it should.

The notion is almost as preposterous as that of an Italianate Chicago Symphony.

That is as preposterous as it is offensive.

When dried it picks up a banana flavour".From this point of view, the most interesting trend is not in ever-higher doses of capsaicin for the maniac market, but in the presence of chili in a range of foodstuffs that previous generations would have regarded as preposterous candidates for hotting up.

Blackburn did not testify in the trial and only spoke of the plot years later when he denounced it as "too preposterous for intelligent gentlemen to believe".