1. Your arguments sound very interesting, but have you brought them up to the scientific community? If so, what have their responses been? If not, why not?
2. Do you have homeowner's insurance? If so, why not 'earth insurance'? You state that even with your reservations you put the likelyhood of carbon 'powered' global warming at 20%. Do you think the likelyhood of your house burning down is more than that? Too expensive you say? Try again. A conservative website made a big stink about a government commission that had come up with a figure of some hundreds of billions of dollars over the next 30 years to implement the requested policies to reduce global warming (in the US). This sounded horrific until some brilliant soul did the math - it works out to $87/person/year. I don't know about you Mr. Evans, but that's less than my family pays for house insurance.
Oh, and one other bonus (literally). Many of the actions being talked about to fight global warming have the added effect of reducing our country's use of oil and gas. Considering both our balance of payments and our political position, this sounds to me like another excellent reason to go ahead with the global warming fight.
Truemors
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at 00:39 on October 18th, 2007
Interesting Mr. Evans, but two problems:
1. Your arguments sound very interesting, but have you brought them up to the scientific community? If so, what have their responses been? If not, why not?
2. Do you have homeowner's insurance? If so, why not 'earth insurance'? You state that even with your reservations you put the likelyhood of carbon 'powered' global warming at 20%. Do you think the likelyhood of your house burning down is more than that? Too expensive you say? Try again. A conservative website made a big stink about a government commission that had come up with a figure of some hundreds of billions of dollars over the next 30 years to implement the requested policies to reduce global warming (in the US). This sounded horrific until some brilliant soul did the math - it works out to $87/person/year. I don't know about you Mr. Evans, but that's less than my family pays for house insurance.
Oh, and one other bonus (literally). Many of the actions being talked about to fight global warming have the added effect of reducing our country's use of oil and gas. Considering both our balance of payments and our political position, this sounds to me like another excellent reason to go ahead with the global warming fight.
Thoughts?