November 12, 2007
Climate Reason
AWG advocate Bjorn Lomborg has a nice piece in the Telegraph: Ignore Al Gore, but not his Nobel friends
While Gore was creating alarm with his belief that a 20-foot-high wall of water would inundate low-lying cities, the IPCC showed us we should realistically prepare for a rise of one foot or so by the end of the century. Beyond the dramatic difference, it is also worth putting that one foot in perspective. Over the last 150 years, sea levels rose about one foot - yet, did we notice?Most tellingly, while Gore was raising fears about the Gulf Stream halting and a new Ice Age starting, the scientists discounted the prospect entirely.
Reasonable discussion -- sans hyperbole -- would serve the scientific community and the environment a lot better than the exaggerated claims of the doomsayers.
Deleterious Anthropogenic Warming of the Globe Posted by jk at November 12, 2007 1:44 PM
Wait a minute. Are you saying, "Objective reporting," of "objective science," WITHOUT a bunch of self-serving fear mongering? Pshaw! How's the medical marijuana stash holding out over there in Boulder County?
Posted by: johngalt at November 13, 2007 2:24 AMJoin me in a quick chorus of Kumbaya?
Posted by: jk at November 13, 2007 12:28 PMMaybe it's a coincidence, jg, but the New York Times highlights new books with centrist views of global warming.
Posted by: jk at November 13, 2007 4:11 PM | What do you think? [3]