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hpeer wrote:
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. The worst that may happen by "cleaning up the environment" is much worse than that, and is in fact almost entirely unaddressed by anyone. How much less CO2 production will it take to change anything? No one knows. Will it results in massive unemployment and economic hardship, a radical change in lifestyle and great decrease in quality of life? No one knows. But, the radical greens don't care, right? Their agenda is something akin to setting technology back a hundred years or so, with no consideration for how much suffering it would cause anyone, right? I mean, you're all sympathetic to that idea, right? So don't pretend that the worst case scenario is just a little cleanup and increased gas mileage of cars. Stephen |
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