> Grant wrote: > impact that it's going to have on _our_ species. Big deal that 55 billion > years ago there was 4-5x more CO2. How is that even relevant? The earth will > survive no matter what we do or how much CO2 there is. We however will not.
And, the interesting thing about scientific theories is that they can only be disproved, not proved. So - and I don't know if if this is true - if we say the theory is that: (1.) CO2 affects our climate to the point were we can no longer live on the planet, and (2.) Humans can impact CO2 beyond a tipping point. Then the real question isn't "are they scientists that disagree", the real question is "are there scientists that have disproved the theory" As I've said forever, we won't understand our climate anytime soon so making a call one way or another is asinine - which is why lots of Republicans like too. Instead we need to take an insurance view of it: it may happen just like our houses may burn down. It's a small chance, but the impact is so great we need to secure ourselves against it. The way to do that is with a moonshot type effort at 1% of GDP. If the G8 (or G15) did that we wouldn't even be asking. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:300070 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
