Bali can succeed despite US, China: Nobel laureate

Thanks for the story - I would rather have listened to the 3000 experts give an acceptance speech than Al Gore, it would have left a better taste in my mouth...and at least I would have agreed the experts have raised some awareness, rather than feel the Prize was awarded for a whole lot of misinformation and propoganda politicized by a man with an ego that precedes any true intentions toward making the world a better place, replacing his disappointment in himself as to his place in history politically, with a glassy eyed pretention of samaritanism.

Let's hope 3000 more experts/scientists go to work on this uncontrolled experiment [ (A + B does not always = C - if A (the past ) is a matter of opinion based on historical probability and not definitively proof, B (the now) is a fixed quantity in place, time and subjective facts correlating only with present day technologies/information, forward C (the future) projections are loosely coherent at best therefore solutions based on C .... well, let's just say they haven't got it quite right or we would all be in agreement]  provide a somewhat more objective hypotheses toward the cause and effect of global warming.

3000 experts reaching these same conclusions might have merit if they weren't all working within the same highly biased ring of opinion and slanted by self-preservation.  No one gets paid for disagreement but politicians and journalists - science privatized would certainly yield a more tangible, and believable, result.  Repeatedly citing China and the US as the highest contributors to greenhouse gases does nothing but just that, repeat it.  There is no doubt who will foot the bill to 'save' the planet from global warming, and I'm equally as sure anti-Americanism will feed the tiger tenfold when the world sits down to point fingers.

As for me, I'm not quite ready to build up the global warming savings account as I'm too constricted in my budget trying to stop human beings from killing each other before there is no one left to enjoy the planet in the first place.  If it's a matter of which comes first, chicken or egg - we destroy each other or we destroy the world - I'm betting we've less time to save ourselves.  World peace is a lovely concept, but I'm pretty confident people have been at war since our inception and doubt it's even in human nature to spend the rest of infinity at peace with each other.  The age of technology on the other hand is pretty recent, the earth's warming and cooling previous is moot as to human action or inaction, and guess what - I have faith in us that we'll figure it out, adjust accordingly, and take good care of old mother earth, even heal some wounds, with plenty of time to spare.

The end of the world isn't coming because people of the earth made it so.  For every threat, enough of us overcome and survive because well....collectively we're not stupid.  If we were, we would already be extinct.  We make mistakes, we correct it, we do it every day because we're programmed to and we always will.  I say enjoy your life, do what you can, and stop whipping up the more ignorant in masses to feed an enormous ball of anxiety that for some reason is a magnet to others who are prone to it.  Stay calm, relax, take care of business - it's more productive in the long run; and that is the bone of contention is it not, how long we can run?

 Cheers,

babbling on a brook in eastern Canada