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To: jlallen who wrote (942291)

6/23/2016 3:18:33 PM

From: Wharf Rat

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Figure 5 | Global mean surface temperature, progressive year to date to May 2016. Data source. GISS NASA

To: jlallen who wrote (942291)	6/30/2016 8:49:54 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Recommended By jlallen Respond to of 1574751

Key point - 1. Consider the whole enchilada First, let’s zoom out a few orders of magnitude to look at the Climate Orthodoxy as a series of dots that must be connected, or better, a series of premises that must be accepted in their totality. The earth is warming.The earth is warming primarily due to the influence of human beings engaged in production and energy use.Scientists are able to limn most of the important phenomena associated with a warming climate, disentangling the human from the natural influence, extending backward well into the past.Scientists are able then to simulate most of the phenomena associated with a warming earth and make reasonable predictions, within the range of a degree or two, into the future about 100 years.Other kinds of scientists are able to repackage this information and make certain kinds of global predictions about the dangers a couple of degrees will make over that hundred years. Economists are able to repackage those predictions and make yet further predictions about the economic costs and benefits that accompany those global predictions.Other economists then make further predictions based on what the world might be like if the first set of economists is right in its predictions (which were based on the other scientists’ predictions, and so on) — and then they propose what the world might look like if certain policies were implemented.Policymakers are able to take those economists’ predictions and set policies that will ensure what is best for the people and the planet on net.Those policies are implemented in such a way that they work. They have global unanimity, no defections, no corruption, and a lessoning of carbon-dioxide output that has a real effect on the rate of climate change — enough to pull the world out of danger.Those policies are worth the costs they will impose on the peoples of the world, especially the poorest.That is a lot to swallow. And yet, it appears that the Climate Orthodoxy requires we accept all of it. Otherwise, why would the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) publish a document called “ Summary for Policymakers”? fee.org