I'm going to comment in detail about the following sentences from the article in the title of this thread. Here they are:
1. The strong scientific consensus on the causes and risks of climate change stands in stark contrast to widespread confusion and complacency among the public. 2. For most people, uncertainty about the risks of climate change means costly actions to reduce emissions should be deferred; if climate change begins to harm the economy, mitigation policies can then be implemented. However, long delays in the climate’s response to anthropogenic forcing mean such reasoning is erroneous. 3. When “common sense” and science conflict, people often reject the science. 4. Wait-and-see policies implicitly presume the climate is roughly a first-order linear system with a short time constant, rather than a complex dynamical system with long delays, multiple positive feedbacks, and nonlinearities that may cause abrupt, costly, and irreversible regime changes. 5. The civil rights movement provides a better analogy for the climate challenge. Then, as now, entrenched interests vigorously opposed change. Taken together, I think they provide a pretty good summary of why people in essence fool themselves, or allow themselves to be fooled. Each sentence will get a separate post. Yes, this will delay Leo a bit, but imo it will be worth it :-) Edward --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. 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/leo-editor?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
