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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (9330)2/5/2007 11:08:52 PM
From: Triffin  Read Replies (3) of 36918
 

The point is, if humans cause climate to change at an accelerated rate then there will be a huge financial and ecological mess to pay. It would still be a mess if the climate changed for some other reason, but the evidence is that the causes of the current changes are within our control.


I firmly believe that we as a species have managed to get
to where we are in large part due to the relative
climatic equilibrium of the past 8000 years or so ..

The consequences of too much climate change in either direction;
warming or cooling, will have enormous mitigation costs ..

If I had to choose one or the other, I'd rather deal with
the consequences of a continued warming scenario .. Imagine
trying to mitigate advancing continental ice sheets,
falling sea level that would leave all port cities high
and dry, loss of farmland, inability to provide heat due
to lack of fossil fuels, Peak Oil and an Ice Age ..

Triff ..
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