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June 14th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
The final summation that “the risk of not acting far outweighs the risk of acting” is debatable. One flaw is assuming that if we were to do something to end global warming then it would have a positive impact on global climate change. Considering extremes, we might very well end up causing the reverse “a global cooling”, or an even worse global warming, etc. Then we’ve spent all that money and still end up with another set of disasters related to global climate change. In other words, the upper right quadrant on his chart is potentially a worse situation than the lower left.
June 14th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
True… but I suppose that’s the problem isn’t it? There is fear that both actions result in a horrible situation… so everyone is sitting around debating this to death and nothing getting done.
I think pro-action folks are concerned because some action like lowering pollution seems like it couldn’t possibly be a bad thing, and anti-action folks likely don’t want to make any moves for financial reasons until a plan is in place.
Who knows what the right answer is.
I will say this… the yellow/brown cloud of haze that sits over LA and Phoenix on any given day, I can’t imagine is helping *anyone* =/