Wise men say only fools rush in
Roger A. Pielke Jr., an environmental policy expert at the University of Colorado at Boulder, argues global warming over the rest of this century will have a much smaller impact than most scientists think. He believes that it is cheaper and more effective to adapt to global warming than to fight it. So, instead of spending huge amounts of money to stabilize carbon dioxide levels across the planet, we should work on reducing current problems such as hunger, storm damage and disease.
Read the entire article in Los Angeles Times.
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I would say we should try to break free from fossile energy use. Not because of the supposed climate change but other environmental and security problems.
The problem with the Kyoto accord is that it dictates WHEN reduced use of fossile fuel shall occur. As the human inventiveness is great but unpredictable, that has lead politicians to focus on consumtion rather than technical development. Therein lies the problem: we cannot achieve a sustainable society by going backwards; we must move forward through technical development. But that requires that we let the dynamics that create innovation work freely. Restricting consumption on the short term is likely to impede rather enhance the innovation process, and it is thus countereffective.
I say, for now, we should break free from fossil energy use by conquering the countries that produce it, and TAKE BACK the oil well industry that they nationalized (STOLE) from us in the first place, while killing all the Dark Age brainwashed idiots who Dr. Who transported into the modern oil-producing desert. All of them who do not join the modern world instead of create a mass movement of “we were great in the past, and will be great in the future, so the present means nothing”. Oh wait, that *is* what we are doing. Never mind. Don’t worry, Israeli strike bombers know where the nuke factories are, and cannot be seen by radar. No wonder Syria kept its clap trapped when Israel bombed yet another one of the towel-head’s “baby milk factories.” Boy, did Syria ever clean that site up, back to sand, in but a fortnight.
If these sand creatures cause us another 9/11, do not think for a moment that nukes will not be used. Big ones. Hydrogen bombs are 10,000 times the size of the two that ended WWII.
Really, “break free of it”? Who the hell invented it? Nomadic tribes in Arabia? No. We did, the United States of America. Next is Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Syria. In the six day war, tiny Israel did it. Our turn. As in SHUT UP, YOU DECAPITATING SAVAGES. Have a slice of of hot fusion snack.
Let’s NUKE the Middle East. It’s a fair political argument. They are becoming more and more like Germany prior to WWII except that they are into the passive-aggression of guerrilla warfare after massive immigration, instead of armies with tanks (which they don’t know how to build).
Alternatives? Peace talks? “The Peace Process.” For my whole life, over 40 years, have I heard that crap. Each month another school bus explodes.
Sometimes you have to just finally call evil by it’s name, and wipe it out, with hellfire.
Maggie, I hope you are proud of the kind of genocidal racist creeps that are attracted to your blog.
Thomas, I do not have to agree with someone to post their views. I do post yours, remember? There’s that thing called “freedom of speech”. But you’re right about that last comment. I truly hope that Nuke is just being ironic.
Freedom of speech doesn’t necessarily include hate speech, in fact, it tend to be illegal in many countries, including Sweden. Most bloggers remove comments of this nature.
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