On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 08:57:59PM +1300, LizR wrote: > I'm not completely sure why this is "why nothing will be done about climate > change". For one thing, some things are already being done about it - the > rise in emissions dropped in 2012 (not wonderful, I know, but some > improvement). Interesting article, though. An even stronger case for > thorium reactors, if one is needed. > >
Not having RTFA, I may be getting the wrong end of the stick here, but I would say, of course something will be done about climate change. The real question is when, and what. That's what differentiates conservatives from progressives. Long ago, I thought the when would actually be when the last drop of oil was squeezed out of the ground, or maybe later when the last seam of coal was unearthed. Consequently, the what will be whatever changes are required to survive in the changed world. More recently, I've become more optimistic that renewable energy technology will economically displace fossil fuel technologies within a few decades. This will limit the amount of "what" we have to do to adapt to the new world. It despairs me to see politicians deny that there is a problem at all (such as our new PM, although his rhetoric is now changing :). That is approaching the problem with the eyes shut. ISTM, we have long since passed the stage when we could have prevented climate from changing at all... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
