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[mises]

[Kuros]

Wow, what a fantastic idea to address the collective action global warming problem.

[doc_ido]

[mises]

You mean the ever changing climate that has periods of warming and cooling? The UN panel scared the world with the "hockey stick" theory, which was the source of massive controversy. The stick rose and then leveled off, much like the previous warming period. The stick didn't represent an accurate assessment of the past, as the little ice age and Medieval warm period were absent. They then said this decade would see 0.3 degrees increase, which hasn't happened at all thus far. Now we hear a ten year break (article published in Nature) and THEN it will take off "again". Even Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the IPCC said there had been no change so far this century. Why in the world are we allowing ourselves to be whipped into a dither about this?

Well, I think I know why. And so does this dude:

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/skidelsky5/English

Even IF the hockey stick idea were true, global warming would be a small problem for the earth. Bjorne Lomborg has done excellent work detailing how this overreaction comes at the expense of easily solved threats to human life like malaria and hunger. The world has finite funds available to solve problems such as this. We need to be rational, calm and measured in our approach.

Then, we add to the hysteria the push to bio-fuels that have helped to drive up food prices. Rich people in rich nations want to fill their cars/planes with food to massage their eco-ego.

It is all a farce. And group think like this is a serious threat to liberty.

[Kuros]

I remember listening to a Harvard CD lecture series on global climate change.

The carbon surplus was measured by looking at the source and strength of carbon emitters versus the source and strength of carbon sinkholes. Right now, the world is emitting 20 times as much carbon as the sinkholes can absorb. The lecture series placed less emphasis on the certitude of a future, dire impact than on raising questions about what is going on. Being a lecture from an accredited academic institution, it was bereft of the kind of vulgar prophecies that would, for example, put New York under water within the next 50 years.

Right now, humanity is taking carbon from beneath the earth and pumping it into the atmosphere. Given the magnitude of this endeavour, I am skeptical of Mises' claims that all GW fears are simply leftist, clap-trap, group-think.

[Gopher]

[doc_ido]

[mole]

I propose oxygen rationing.

[saw6436]

And I vividly remember being taught in Middle School science class that the Earth would soon, early 21st Cent, enter a new Ice Age. Global Cooling was all the rage in the 1970s.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[mises]

Would Mexican-British get extra credits for dietary reasons? Would Hindu's get extra cause they don't eat cows? Oh, the ethnic pandering the multiculties could have..

[Toju]

Sometimes I am ashamed to be British.

[Julius]

Movie stars, football players, politicians..etc will have to buy carbon credit from other folks. Most of them would use up their allowance in a month or so, flying across the atlantic twice a week.

[Kuros]