Romm Wants To Take Action On The Climate

8 Responses to Romm Wants To Take Action On The Climate

1. omnologos says:

   March 9, 2011 at 7:47 am

   Not sure how much “policymakers” will like being talked to using “everyday concepts already in use in the insurance industry”…

   Anyway, the answer is simple: “the greater the uncertainty, the greater the risk“? The greater the risk to do something stupid that would make the situation worse. Everybody should know by now that the Titanic might have survived a direct head-on hit against the iceberg, and in hindsight nobody should have slowed that ship down, or tried to change course.

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   • suyts says:

     March 9, 2011 at 8:09 am

     I’m not sure why people can’t learn from history, but they don’t. And this climate argument is particularly bizarre. They wish climate to remain the same…..ostensibly so our lives will remain manageable, and we’re not forced to immediate adaptation. To obtain this, they insist on immediate action and adaptation.

     Regardless of the validity of their views, this lack of logic requires I reject their assertions.

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     • omnologos says:

       March 9, 2011 at 8:32 am

       it’s worse than that. ..they insist on mitigation not adaptation thereby guaranteeing to select the worst possible course of action

       it’s like if the captain of the Titanic had proposed against the threat of icebergs to send a letter to other ship captains running the same lanes asking them to drop buckets of warm water overboard

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     • Layne Blanchard says:

       March 9, 2011 at 8:59 am

       It’s Even worse than THAT, my friends. Their mitigation plan to the possible collision of the Titanic with an iceburg
       is to jump naked into the frigid North Atlantic to escape the impact.

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     • Dave G says:

       March 9, 2011 at 4:40 pm

       I know!! whatever happened to “adapting” to your environment? I won’t feel sorry for them when the SHTF

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2. Amino Acids in Meteorites says:

   March 9, 2011 at 8:21 am

   Baghdad Romm

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3. Bruce of Newcastle says:

   March 9, 2011 at 8:56 am

   One measly trillion? On the latest calc that is worth all of 0.0005 C.

   Chicken feed.

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4. Philip Finck says:

   March 9, 2011 at 6:28 pm

   I am completely uncertain whether the flesh eating Martians will land tomorrow, so as a precution we need to shoot 99.9 percent of the earths population so that there isn’t enough fresh, juicy flesh to be bothered stopping for.

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