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?

Comments

[7leaguebootdisk.livejournal.com]

I don't know that I believe that human caused heating the the biggest climate threat.

For example, post 2000, it seems things have leveled off, that is most likely due to an unusually low sun spot level (in so far as records can be trusted) since 1700 or so.

I prefer the term catastrophic climate change. That is coming, I think, and we should be gathering better data, and testing manipulations of the climate to deal with it.

It's not about blame, but how best to manage things.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

My intent was not to place blame, and if I did so then I apologize. My intent was to throw rocks at people who would prefer we just pretended the problem doesn't exist in hopes it would go away. Because regardless of whether it was humans, farting cows, or JHVH, or all of the above who have caused this situation, we have to live in it.