> Judah wrote: > There is a problem with your insurance analogy that I think is > important in this debate.
All true. But what's causing the inaction right now is people stuck in stupid thinking otherwise known as the is-it-or-isn't-it debate. What makes it especially stupid is their logic: we don't know so it isn't. That's essentially Sam and Robert's point: we don't know for sure that it is so it must not be. Of course that's ridiculous logic, but try to convince them of that and you'll fail because they've become religious about it. On the other side you have people that say the temp is up so it must be. We don't that either. And at the end of the day we won't ever know because our science is too primitive. So what to do? With insurance you spend resources to guard against risk - even small risk - because the incident cost exceeds your ability to pay. That's global warming. There's enough evidence to know it's a risk. And the incident cost will exceed the human population's ability to pay. Thus we need to spend to the resources to guard against that risk. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:283053 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
