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I recently read a pretty good book about the Climate Change argument.
And there is also some pretty interesting research out there if you are looking for information. What's the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate Greg Craven The thrust is not to tell you what will happen but to help people navigate their way through all the claims and counter claims. He offers a simplified risk analysis approach to the topic. He also offers his own personal opinion on the matter. I suggest you read it. It's an easy read and the technique is useful in a lot of other areas besides. Something else interesting is a recent Yale/George Mason report on American attitudes towards climate change. It seems that the deniers fall into a fairly well defined demographic: Well paid Home owners Older Well educated White Men research.yale.edu/environment/uploads/CCAmericanMind.pdf You might ask yourself if your opinion is because of your reasoned and enlightened thoughts - or because of the group you belong to. As to my personal opinion - Playing the global warming game is dangerous and should not be done lightly. If, in fact, GW is a hoax and there is nothing to do then the worst we could do is to clean up or environment and improve our gas mileage. That may come at the cost of a recession. If, on the other hand, the worst fears of global warming are realized, well then we have just really, really screwed all our grandchildren. You realize that, at our average age, we have little to loose personally. We can afford to be flippant. Tell that to a 3rd grader. Cheers Here are a couple of links if you are interested http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17032586/ http://environment.nationalgeographi...-overview.html http://channel.nationalgeographic.co...-3188/Overview assets.panda.org/downloads/2_vs_3_degree_impacts_28sep06.pdf assets.panda.org/downloads/climatesolutionweb.pdf http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/foot.../climate_deal/ |
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