[MD] Global Warming: Science or Politics?

[ian glendinning]

So Platt all bets are off - therefore do nothing ?
Of all the "wrong" uncertain things to do is do nothing the least
risky, the least uncertain ?

(What about meteor avoidance measures - say ? Find a new planet maybe
? Stick out heads in the sand ? It'll be alright on the night ?)

Just trying to get the measure of your fatalism.
Ian

On 2/20/07, pholden at davtv.com <pholden at davtv.com> wrote:
> Quoting ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com>:
>
> > Platt ? You said to Mark
> > "For the same reason we can't be sure that [xxxx] won't bring on
> > a period of global [warming / cooling], as was widely predicted by
> > scientists in the 70's."
> >
> > So I asked
> > > > So Platt, recognising this "uncertainty", what do you (as an
> > > > individual) plan to do, whose advice to you plan to take, on what
> > > > basis will you make your decisions ?
> > > >
> > > > Or are all bets off, until you are sure ?
> >
> > Ian
>
> Thanks for the context. As far as I'm concerned, all bets are off. Predicting
> global climate change has no record of being accurate. Seems to me the chances
> of being wiped out by a meteor are greater than global warming. At least there
> is some evidence of that causing a big extinction in the past. But, I could be
> wrong.
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