The key point is not energy, but power. Political power.
2014-12-12 7:20 GMT+01:00 John Clark <[email protected]>: > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 3:41 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > We and other species could no doubt adapt to the much warmer climate of >> the Carboniferous era - but not in a few hundred years. >> > > When things got super hot life adapted, and we're far more intelligent > than anything that lived during the Carboniferous and the specialty of > intelligence is being good at adapting quickly to changing environmental > conditions. > >> >> > > Did that revelation come to you in a dream? You know why the Earth >>> was super cold 450 million years ago and super hot 360 million years ago >>> and everything in-between since? >>> >>> > No it came to me reading about the Milankovich cycles. >> >> Please explain how ether the 21,000 or 26,000 or 41,000 year Milankovitch > cycle can explain why the Earth was colder than it's ever been 450 > million years ago and hotter than any time in the last two billion years > 360 million years ago. > > >> >> No person who doesn't make his living feeding environmental panic says >>> the global temperature is going to rise 4.5degK anytime soon, >>> >>> > It's the 95% upper confidence bound of the IPCC projection for 2100. >> > > Bureaucratic agencies have a survival instinct, if people thought there > was no need to be in a environmental panic there would be no reason for a > agency like the IPCC to exist, and I don't give a damn if they're confident > I only care if they're correct and predictions about what things will be > like in 85 years almost never are. For heavens sake that's like demanding > that the Wright Brothers find a solution to airport congestion; if in 85 > years global warming turns out to be a real problem our toolkit for fixing > things will be VASTLY larger and more powerful than it is now, and in the > meantime there are plenty of more important problems that need fixing right > now. > > > >> > Bullshit. You're just making up straw man "environmentalist". One of >> my close friends is president of the Sierra Club and he's *for* nuclear >> power. >> > > We've been down this road before. I don't know who your mystery friend is > but I do know that the Sierra Club official website says: > > "The Sierra Club remains unequivocally opposed to nuclear energy." > > > And even those who are against it only hold that opinion because they >> think solar and wind can replace oil. >> > > Then they are fools. > > John K Clark > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Alberto. -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
