On 13 December 2014 at 10:23, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 12/12/2014 11:33 AM, LizR wrote: > >> The point is that none of these previous events involved such rapid >> change as we're seeing now, but even if they did, so what? We know what's >> going on, it isn't hard to monitor. We've known how the greenhouse effect >> works for more than 2 centuries, we can measure the amount of carbon >> dioxide in the atmosphere, we know it's gone up just over 40% since the >> industrial revolution, we have a reasonable model of the likely results - >> not perfect of course for such a complex system, but we're seeing the sorts >> of results that have been predicted. Ice melting over the arctic, glaciers >> retreating, sea levels rising, more extreme weather and now a disruption to >> the jet stream. If this was, for example, the detection of a new >> astronomical object or fundamental particle there wouldn't be any question >> about whether it existed. >> > > Exactly so. But if the new astronomical object were an asteriod that was > predicted to hit the Earth in 20yrs and preventing this would require some > effort and expense on the part of the rich and comfortable there would be > deniers pointing out that many objects have struck the Earth in the past > and life survived and besides it will probably just strike the ocean and > nobody but environmental elitists care about the ocean and it's really just > a hoax by astronomers to make them rich and we all know that those orbital > mechanics programs can be tweaked to give any answer you want and besides > the asteroid may contain precious metals we can mine and if it hit the > middle east wouldn't we all be better off anyway and let's just wait > because we're sure to invent some magic bullet to solve this problem in the > next 19yrs. > > True. That is simultaneously amusing and terrifying.
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