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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (322813)1/24/2007 5:10:17 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1582695
 
I don't really agree with the whole tipping point argument, at least the stronger versions of it. The strongest versions, the idea that man made global warming is certain and that we can be highly confident that it will be a major disaster if we don't respond strongly within 10 years, but that responding strongly withing 10 years gives a decent chance to avert the disaster, strike me as nonsense.

As for the side benefits, I generally think they would be smaller, often much smaller then you do. Some of them might be large when looked at in isolation but would be in exchange for other large costs, others would probably be small or would fail to materialize at all, and most importantly almost none of them require a crash course to change right now. Change over time, esp. in response to market incentives like oil becoming scarcer, is much cheaper and more efficient.
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