I try to think of people as good at heart, but they insist on opening their mouths.

[cyrano]

It's my own fault for reading commentary on 'global climate change'.


The world won't come to an end in my lifetime i have no children but im sure if i did it wont come to an end in theirs or their childrens lifetime and so on for quite along while yet. So to be honest, i do not care. Im fed up of the whole talk of climate change, because quite simply i feel we the UK other paying for other countries who just dont tow the line, yes i dont mind using unleaded and not littering the place etc etc. But just feel its always just an excuse to take money from us.

I admire your conviction. You've decided that everything will be just fine, and so now you have the luxury of not caring and being fed up. Good on you!

Climate change is still mainly a luxury issue for rich countries and I don't see why poor countries such as India and China should have to limit their economic progress for the benefit of rich countries.

It's a shame, really to limit economic progress in poor countries like China and India (Poor China! Poor India!) just because they might be swamped, desertified, devastated, or other things that probably won't impact their economy at all.

How do you know how significant or irrelevant a given concentration of an agent is? If you were offered a glass of .039% of cyanide would you drink it? If you were offered a cup of tea with a nanogram of Polonium 210 in it would you drink it?

Cyanide is toxic. Carbon dioxide is naturally occuring and forms such a miniscule part of the atmophere it can have no effect on climate.

How do you know how significant an agent is? You could, I don't know, TRYING USING SCIENCE.

And then of course there's the usual flock of people who've gone from straight out denying that there is any problem directly into saying that of course there's a problem but there's nothing to be done la la la.

Thatcher's Bloody England. Is it any wonder my blood pressure is so high?

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It's exactly how imminent the catastrophe is that's uncertain, I think, and that this is the source of all the difficulties politically and policy-wise, given the relentless desire in human beings for efficiency. (That is, we want to solve the problem using as few sacrifices as are genuinely needed, and there will always be those with a financial stake in making fewer, or at least in making fewer, themselves.)