[Vision2020] Scientific Consensus: Global Warming: Skepticism &Replicatability

[Paul Rumelhart]

We have a finite amount of resources to throw at the world's problems.  
For example, what are we doing about the imminent expansion of our Sun 
into a red giant?  That will kill everyone on Earth.  We don't know 
exactly when that will occur, and exactly how long it will take.  
Shouldn't we be developing shields, moving to Mars, or something?

Paul

Tom Hansen wrote:
> Repeat after me, Paul -
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> "An ounce of prevention . . .
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> "[Your Response Here]"
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> " . . . is worth a pound of cure."
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> "[Your Response Here]"
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> Very good.
>  
> Next Week:  "The Republican Party and Family Values"
>  
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
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> > Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:20:58 -0700
> > From: godshatter at yahoo.com
> > To: starbliss at gmail.com
> > CC: vision2020 at moscow.com; privatejf32 at hotmail.com
> > Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Scientific Consensus: Global Warming: 
> Skepticism &Replicatability
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> > This is what I don't get. If the problem is as bad as they are saying,
> > which from what I can gather means that I will die of heat prostration
> > or drowning sometime before my natural lifespan would normally arrive,
> > then why are we talking about carbon pricing, low-carbon technologies,
> > and curbing deforestation? If it's that bad, outlaw coal power plants
> > tomorrow. Hell, give those companies that own them free money to
> > replace them with the power plant of their choice that uses
> > hydroelectric, wind, solar, geothermal, nuclear, or whatever other kind
> > of greener power plants there are available. Mandate a total ban on the
> > internal combustion engine starting ten years from now. Make it illegal
> > to buy a new one, and illegal to import one. Sign the damned Kyoto
> > protocol and tell the non-complying countries that we'll be nuking 
> their
> > worst polluting plants in 20 years, if they don't dismantle them first.
> > One a day, with the schedule posted on the Internet. As an added bonus,
> > the particulates sent into the upper atmosphere will help cool our
> > planet down.
> >
> > Or could it be that it's not that bad - but there is a lot of money in
> > crowing about it? We've been over this ground before, but our biosphere
> > is a complicated set of interacting variables that I don't think we can
> > model that precisely. However, I would be happy to have our government
> > take every penny that we plan on throwing at Iraq next year and 
> throw it
> > at electric car research instead. If nothing else, it will make the
> > impact of the Middle East on our country decrease instead of the steady
> > increase we've seen. Saving our lives later would just be a bonus.
> >
> > Paul