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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (751993)11/10/2013 11:57:00 AM
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* can humans survive much higher temperatures, especially if they decimate our ability to produce enough food or harvest it from oceans?

I think the answer to that is yes - without question we can survive higher temps - colder - not so easily. Even during periods of 10X CO2 the earth has never turned into a desert. Ice ball planet happened, ice ages happen like clock work.

* are the cost of changing our ways to cleaner energy sources outweighed but he costs of global warming, which include increased damage to coastal properties and lost life, increased disease from insect proliferation, and increased intensity of storms leading to increased damage to human property?

There are so many assumptions in your list as to the effects of warming that have been proven false or are still unclear they aren't worth addressing. The only question in your list worth considering is the financial cost. No we can't afford to do that today - aren't we as a nation 17 Trillion in debt already (probably 20T by the time dumbo gets done with us)- and without a solution the entire world will adopt - our actions would be nothing short of economic suicide. Besides any solution should come from the private sector - the government should stick to funding research for alternative energy.

The fact world temps have ceased increasing while we continue to pour CO2 at faster and faster rates into the air for the last 15 years should give you some serious pause in this questionable theory. I am 100% behind alternative energy at economically competitive cost and nuclear energy is that solution right now. Plan for disaster, place them in isolated locations and build the latest, safest plants possible. I've noticed the Chinese are having trouble selling their solar panels so the producers are installing them and selling energy instead now. Curious how long that will last since they build a coal plant a day over there.
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