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Yeah, here's a giant hole: I don't care what the temperature was in 4000 BC. Right now, the ice caps are melting, and all available science points to CO2 as t
by jbooth 16y ago
Yeah, here's a giant hole: I don't care what the temperature was in 4000 BC.
Right now, the ice caps are melting, and all available science points to CO2 as the reason. Maybe the reason in 4000BC was CO2, maybe it was something else. But right now, the ice caps melting are going to create a whole bunch of problems for us.
I also noticed that in this guy's "historical long view" graphs, he omitted the last 30 years so that we don't see a big spike at the end. And they seem to all be normalized differently. Very honest of him. I'm sure he's motivated by pure science and not politics.
- scotch_drinker 16y agoWhether that's true or not, do the benefits of stopping the ice caps melting outweigh the negative effects on us for the future? Just because something is going to cause us a whole bunch of problems does not mean the solution will not cause more problems and implementing a solution blindly is likely to be profoundly disappointing in the long run. Every decision must be weighed against the effects of both making it and not making it. I am unconvinced those who say "We should do something to prevent global warming" fully understand what we may be doing to our future in an effort to solve a problem we may not have. On top of that, our political class is probably unable to have the type of discussion required to make that decision anyway.