[MD] Global Warming: Science or Politics?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com>:

> 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 ?

The least costly, least loss of individual liberty, possible beneficial outcome.

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

Eventually this planet is a goner. So I favor the space program (within reason). 

> Just trying to get the measure of your fatalism.
> Ian

Not fatalism. Reasonableness and practicality. 

Platt


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