(06-02-2017, 06:33 PM)Ashock Wrote: With all the lamentations and handwringing going on from the left over the US quitting the Paris accord, let's look at some interesting info. The below is a study done not by someone who does not believe in man-made global warming, but actually by someone who DOES.
http://www.lomborg.com/press-release-res...e-promises
Or you could read the wall of text:
Bjorn Lomborg
Bjorn Lomborg is an economist. He has no idea about global warming.....sometimes he says it doesn't exist, another time he says it exists but that it isn't caused by humans, another time he accepts it is being caused by humans but he has issues with the wat we spend money to counter it.
A typical climate sceptic (I would use the word religious nutcase for someone who systematically shows he doesn't understand science).
Lomborg is a person not to be trusted. I have followed his work allready for a long time, and he rarely says something sensible.
(06-04-2017, 01:40 PM)kandrathe Wrote: Overall, my philosophy when it comes to the "commons" is that if you, or your horse makes mess it's your responsibility to clean it up.
The trouble with the cartoon is it doesn't consider the costs. For example, we can drastically reduce hurricane deaths by moving people and communities 200 miles from the coast. Pretty much impossible in costs and not politically feasible. We have made progress on reducing co2 with a thriving economy due to technology. I'm a big advocate of sensible transition to clean energy, but not by neo-Luddite destruction of the economy.
Most good calculations show that investing in a green economy actually is good for the economy and can make you earn money.
The problem is that the people who are now in big oil and coal will have take losses....and other people will have more chance of making money.
This is the reason why the oil lobby groups (which have 100s of times more budget than climate scientists) still try to blind us and make us think climate change is not true.