RE: Trump needs to STFU!
January 5, 2015 at 6:35 pm
(This post was last modified: January 5, 2015 at 6:41 pm by JuliaL.)
We have no control group for the Earth unless maybe you look at Venus.
We are only going to be able to run the experiment once.
Metaphor:
If you see a gun in your hand and a trustworthy friend tells you it might be loaded and you want to live, it is unwise to point it at your head and pull the trigger.
It is not that the conclusions of the climatologists pointing to anthropogenic climate change are certain, it is that if they are right, then the consequences are so dire that the rational decision is to act to avoid them. Changing the basic nature of culture and especially the economy has a very long lag time. Doubters and deniers are less influential than they were. But by the time we have conclusive evidence for everybody the die will have been irretrievably cast.
I'm stockpiling food. Not because I think the end of the world is definitely coming, but because I believe in plausible scenarios in which this is my best move for me and mine. And because the carrying cost and availability of food stocks is quite low in comparison to my current net worth. Cheap insurance. But it may not be enough. Note: I do not have a bomb shelter.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26...nario.html
http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/12/18/c...or-humans/
We are only going to be able to run the experiment once.
Metaphor:
If you see a gun in your hand and a trustworthy friend tells you it might be loaded and you want to live, it is unwise to point it at your head and pull the trigger.
It is not that the conclusions of the climatologists pointing to anthropogenic climate change are certain, it is that if they are right, then the consequences are so dire that the rational decision is to act to avoid them. Changing the basic nature of culture and especially the economy has a very long lag time. Doubters and deniers are less influential than they were. But by the time we have conclusive evidence for everybody the die will have been irretrievably cast.
I'm stockpiling food. Not because I think the end of the world is definitely coming, but because I believe in plausible scenarios in which this is my best move for me and mine. And because the carrying cost and availability of food stocks is quite low in comparison to my current net worth. Cheap insurance. But it may not be enough. Note: I do not have a bomb shelter.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26...nario.html
http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/12/18/c...or-humans/
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
