[MD] Global Warming: Science or Politics?

[ian glendinning]

Platt,

The accounting bit is easy - "least", but everything else just shifts
the problem to the other words.

"possible" ? - how likely unlikley / how much downside risk, etc ?

"eventually" ? - so how likely in what time-scales, what are the
chances of achieving something in time, with a given investment
pattern ?

"reason / reasonableness" ? - Er yeah, that was the question, on what
basis will you be judging what is "reasonable".

I'm trying to get you to acknowledge the need to get to grips with
dealing with uncertainty.

Ian

On 2/20/07, pholden at davtv.com <pholden at davtv.com> wrote:
> 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