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August 17, 2008
What if the Ice Age skeptics are ruining the planet?
I've expressed skepticism about global warming, but it's not often that I see politicians doing the same -- especially in New Jersey: Responding to various new scientific reports questioning the concept of global warming, Assemblyman Michael Doherty today called on Governor Corzine to hold off on proposing any new regulations associated with the state's Global Warming Response Act and urged the Legislature to repeal that act when it returns to legislative business after Labor Day.Ice Age? That sounds scary. Maybe we should be taking ameliorative action to warm the planet. What if it turns out that what we've been doing is the best overall course for mankind and the planet? And how do we know that the drive to stop carbon emissions might end up making the Ice Age worse than it would have been? What about the Precautionary Principle? Not to be an alarmist, but our real future may look like this: A very grim scenario. And the only way to prevent it is Nuremberg-style tribunals for Ice Age Deniers! posted by Eric on 08.17.08 at 04:14 PM |
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I'm sure you have read this by Larry Niven (please pardon my lack of HTML formatting): http://www.amazon.com/Descent-Anansi-Larry-Barnes-Steven/dp/B000GRCF64/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219296098&sr=8-2
The story (written in '82) is set in a world where the greens have in fact cut greenhouse emissions so much that they have allowed the pending ice-age to take place, because the greenhouse effect was the only thing keeping us ice-age-free. If you haven't read it, it's an amusing few hours for a fan (in the sci-fi sense).