We might be past a tipping point, or not near one at all. It is to scratch my head.
If things tip, it might be more or less catastrophic. I think that the AGW doomsayers are at least guilty of presumption when they say it IS happening and it WILL spell our doom. I cannot prove that they are wrong, except in scale. If AGW goes badly, many will die and many more will suffer. The species will survive, and I suspect that our technical civilization is more robust thanhe doomsayers would have us believe. Until better science comes along, I cannot countenance the certainty of the economic self-disembowelment that stopping carbon use will bring in order to ward off the possibility that we'll melt the ice caps. The stakes are high, but the price is still too high imo. Mind you, this is my very provisional read of the situation, subject to revision as empirical information comes in.
And, given my age, I can retreat into the smugly unanswerable defense of the mortal: "Après moi, le déluge." |
