BobH wrote on Aug 20
th, 2010 at 2:48pm:
Well, if you look at what was published in the early 1970s, the crisis is essentially the same but the problem seemed to be cooling not warming.
Don't make stuff up Bob. It just makes you look like a dill. Even though growing sulfate aerosol polllution was a problem at the time in the 1970s - the majority of the scientific papers published at the time identified warming due to GHG emissions as being an ongoing issue.
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/2008BAMS2370.1BobH wrote on Aug 20
th, 2010 at 2:48pm:
The media and environmentalists on the 1970s were urging government to do something about the climate crisis. The most they did was pass Clean Air and Water acts. But as a whole the 1970s left environmentalists feeling like the government failed to act. But what happened as a result of their failure to act?
WTF are you talking about?
You just mentioned that Clean Air and Water acts were passed. How is this "failure to act". IN the US in particular - the Clean Air Act of 1970 had a drastic effect on reducing sulfate aerosols. This later evolved into a very successful emissions trading scheme.
These were back in the days when governments took advice from science - and were not full of ignorant conspiracy theory nut jobs like today.
BobH wrote on Aug 20
th, 2010 at 2:48pm:
Did the world end in 1990?
Nobody said it Would Bob. Stop making stuff up.
BobH wrote on Aug 20
th, 2010 at 2:48pm:
No, where still here and enjoying a better quality of life than we did in 1970. Which makes me believe that if we acted in 1970, we would have ruined our way of life for no reason.
They did act in 1970 Bob. They passed legislation to reduce aerosols that were polluting the atmosphere and causing acid rain.
Later they introduced and ETS - because this was the most cost effective way to achieve emission reductions. It still is.
Then in 1987 - global governments acted to ban CFCs.
This is all ongoing work Bob.
Why do you want to stop now and bury your head in the sand?
Global warming will not go away, just because ignorant conspiracy theorists don't understand it.
BobH wrote on Aug 20
th, 2010 at 2:48pm:
The world didn't end in 1990.
Nobody said it Would Bob. Stop making stuff up.
BobH wrote on Aug 20
th, 2010 at 2:48pm:
It was a good thing that government failed to act for so long because the longer they waited, the more time we had to find the truth and discover that the claim of the early 1970s were inaccurate.
The world has been acting Bob.
Clean Air Acts
Clean Water Acts
Montreal Protocol
Kyoto Protocol
And the world continues to act - albeit slowly against global warming.
If you got your information from other sources than Andrew Bolt - you would know that Bob.
BobH wrote on Aug 20
th, 2010 at 2:48pm:
So that makes me think, if we hold off climate change action for another few years, will we slowly discover that the claims of the late 1990s and early 2000s were also exaggerated and inaccurate?
No Bob. We will only discover that you are an idiot.
But we have pretty much worked that out already.
BobH wrote on Aug 20
th, 2010 at 2:48pm:
Is it worth destroying the economy and our way of life
How exactly will using methods other than burning coal to produce electricity "destroy the economy and our way of life" Bob?
There are a lot of ways to make electricity Bob. Many already a lot cheaper than coal