At 09:59 PM 7/8/2006, James Annan wrote:
>"The odds of this happening in the next few decades are better than the >odds that a disgruntled Saudi will sneak onto an airplane and detonate a >shoe bomb." > >Says who? Also, what are the relative costs of preventing the fomer >versus preventing the latter? > >Anyone who wants to bet on Manhattan being turned into an aquarium >before the next major terrorist attack, please step up to the plate. > >James Yes, Gilbert's area of expertise is obviously not climate science. However, as a professor of psychology, I thought his comments on human motivation were worth considering. Would you agree with Bjorn Lomborg that climate change is a long range problem so we shouldn't worry about it now: Get Your Priorities Right A rationalist crusader does the math on global warming http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008626 Jim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
