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I think most of the actual science is pretty good. It's when people start talking about what should be done about global warming that things get dicey.
by curtis 17y ago
I think most of the actual science is pretty good. It's when people start talking about what should be done about global warming that things get dicey.
- bwhite 17y agoMod parent up. This is why Bjorn Lomborg is reviled: not because he doubts that anthropogenic global warming is for real, but because he has the temerity to suggest that the cure (spending a kajillion dollars to achieve relatively small changes in climate) may be worse than the disease. See http://www.ted.com/talks/bjorn_lomborg_sets_global_priorities.html http://www.ted.com/talks/bjorn_lomborg_sets_global_prioritie.... And dancing about, declaring that the science is settled, and claiming to know the One True Solution to something as inherently complex as climate is indicative of failure to understand the science, which leads to politically motivated footballs like this: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/25/source-inside-epa-confirms-claims-of-science-being-ignored-by-top-epa-management/ http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/25/source-inside-epa-conf...
- Tichy 17y agoI personally disklike him because in his speeches (like the TED one) he seemed to make a lot of strawman arguments - like dwelling on "heat deaths being a non-issue" when really I don't think it ever was an issue.
- Bjoern 17y agoIn 2003 in Europe roughly 35.000 people died from heat. That is not an issue?
- Tichy 17y agoSure, but I don't think fear of an increase of heat deaths was an major concern in the climate debate. At least I never heard about it before the Lomborg talk. And I think he made it clear (if he is to believed), that heat deaths indeed are not a thing to worry about with climate change.
- anamax 17y agoHow many people died from cold? How many from heat? Note that I'm not restricting my query to Europe. Feel free to explain which people should count and how much.
- bokonist 17y agoI very much disagree. There is still a lot of contention over the basic science. See this article for the best critique I have found of the science behind global warming: http://commentlog.org/bid/4409/The-Case-for-Global-Warming-Skepticism http://commentlog.org/bid/4409/The-Case-for-Global-Warming-S...
- jswinghammer 17y agoI don't have a problem with the science exactly but rather the predictions that have been made from that science. Predicting the future is very difficult and I'd really like to see more discussion of that when this issue comes up.
- johnnybgoode 17y agoThen, since it's supposed to make accurate predictions and does not do so, you do have a problem with the science. (As you should.)