I accept that CO2 emissions have a net positive (meaning higher, I'm not claiming better) effect on world temperatures.
our problem then, as I see it, is that you don't appreciate what your calling disaster scenarios.....Hurricane Sandy that did major damage to NJ is being attributed to climate change
1 - Not by real science, just by people tossing out speculation as if it was fact.
2 - There doesn't seem to be any such increase when you look at the real statistics.
See
Message 29118555
and
coyoteblog.com
3 - Those aren't the type of disaster scenarios I was talking about. I'm talking about ideas and claims like "
“Because of the rising sea level, due to global warming, in the next few decades … up to 60 percent of the present population of Florida may have to be relocated”, from Al Gore. The more extreme "After 40 years, I'm part of a huge community of scientists who have become alarmed with our discovery, that we know from our knowledge of the ancient past, that if we continue our present growth path, we are facing extinction," Barrett said. "Not in millions of years, or even millennia, but by the end of this century" from Peter Barret, and Tejek's still more extreme "the earth may end up sharing the fate of Venus". |
