Soren wrote on Jan 20
th, 2014 at 5:33pm:
# wrote on Jan 18
th, 2014 at 7:34pm:
Others will doubtless address some of the details he has raised. I start in a different place and ask a simple question. We have so far pumped two trillion tonnes of a greenhouse gas, CO2, into our atmosphere since the industrial revolution, at a rate faster than ever before. Why would we presume that it would have no effect?
Because all that did was increase atmospheric CO2 from just under 0.03% to just under 0.04% of the atmosphere.
Quote:So we know that climate is a complex, complicated matter and that there are multiple variables. Does that mean that we don’t use all the information we have to estimate what might be ahead? Does it mean that we do nothing about one variable over which we have some control – the emission of greenhouse gases? Does it mean that because there are uncertainties we do nothing?
Do something is not the same as do anything. Why don't we shovel some money out the window? That would be doing something and would be just as effective as a carbon tax.
Clean air is important, Clean energy, no dependence on OPEC are important. But there is no justification for the utter hysterics of many AGW activists. Technological innovation, not a speculative tax, is the answer.
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Fascistic silver tongues hate kids: we have all known this since the dawn of time!
Honest johnny will not like the history books because he was only known for one thing: never believing too much in promises or whatever his wife said