Text 14700, 52 rader
Skriven 2007-05-17 21:45:27 av Josh Hill (1112.babylon5)
  Kommentar till text 14693 av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated (1105.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: unions
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On Thu, 17 May 2007 17:19:24 -0700, Charlie Edmondson
<edmondson@ieee.org> wrote:

>Josh Hill wrote:

>As are those, who for whatever hairshirt reasons have decided that we 
>humans MUST be to blame for the climate, and the others who have decided 
>that it is in their political best interest to create FUD and get 
>government control of resources and assets (which means THEY get to 
>control them...) and so have jumped on the AGW bandwagon to push through 
>whatever harebrained program they have created.
>
>Personally, from what I have seen of the research (which we have gone 
>over far too many times already, with the pro-AGW side pointing to 
>'official' research, and pooh-poohing any negative research as obviously 
>  oil and coal apologists...) this is all going to be a tempest in a 
>teapot.  We will either break our economy by trying to 'do something' to 
>'head off the crisis' or we won't do anything.  Either way, when Florida 
>refuses to sink into the ocean in 20 years, we will go on to some other 
>crisis...
>
>Meanwhile, we will hopefully, logically move to more efficient uses of 
>our energy resources, and make money while doing it.  And NOT money from 
>government handouts and subsidies!

I don't know quite what to say, Charlie: the science is overwhelming,
the effects are already here -- but if you choose to believe the
tobacco I mean the coal companies rather than the virtually unanimous
climate scientists, there's nothing I can do to convince you.

I'll note, though, since I've spent a fair amount of time researching
it, that it would /not/ break the economy to reduce the emission of
greenhouse gases to levels that scientists believe will reduce the
worst effects. Arguably, it would save us money and have no
substantial effect on the economy. The one thing missing now is
government action, and that will certainly change with the next
administration, Republican or Democratic, albeit those two years will
be costly ones, since time is of the essence -- if we start now, we
won't have to replace much infrastructure before its reached its
design lifetime.

-- 
Josh

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ones making all the noise." - Barry Goldwater
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