Comments on: Inconvient (Yet Ironic) Truths

By: friend

friend — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:10:29 +0000

You can attack the messenger but the message remains the same.

By: hatem abunimeh

hatem abunimeh — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:39:33 +0000

Great coherent post â?? and the above commenter [tijil] nails it.

I agree.

By: FrauBudgie

FrauBudgie — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:19:20 +0000

I’m American, and have noticed over the years how global warming gets better when we have a Democrat president, and worse when a Republican is elected — at least according to media reports So, not to worry … this will mostly last until a Dem is elected …

Not signing the Kyoto treaty is also a big deal — but signing it would have been a mistake. The US already has spent considerable and had some success with controlling pollutant.

Here’s the problem with Kyoto — it does not really apply to countries like Mexio and China, who are major polloters.

Here’s the other problem with global warming: From what I’ve read, I think that climate change is cyclical — it happens every few thousand years whether humans have produced pollutants or not. Now modern pollution doesn’t help at all — but I think it’s likely to happen regardless.

Now, insteading of trying to figure out what to do about it, or how to develop strategies on how to survive it, the funding is going to endless studies on proving or disproving its existance. Also, there is endless time and energy spent on blaming it on a Republican President — that’s how the opposition party works here in the USA.

Great coherent post — and the above commenter nails it …

By: tijl

tijl — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:44:46 +0000

The problem is: it’s not simple at all. The climate is a very complex thing and we do not know how it works exactly. It is indeed almost certain that the earth is warming right now. That’s quite normal. The earth has been warmer in the past (take Greenland for example. It’s covered by ice now, but the vikings had farms there). Climate changes. It always has changed and always will change. That’s perfectly natural.

The question is: do we influence the climate. And if we do: how exactly does this work and can we steer the climate change in the direction we want? The answer to that is still open to discussion. We probably do influence the climate, but we do not know for sure how.

Can we stop climate change? No we can’t. Can we delay it? Maybe. Is trying to delay it the right thing to do? I think not. In my opinion, it would be better to invest in a way to protect us against the consequences. Like building dams and investing in irrigation to prevent lands from turning into deserts.

Unfortunately, Kyoto is becoming the new religion of Europe which makes it nearly impossible to discuss the subject here.