Man Made Global Warming

[MadBlaster]

Originally Posted by kendo65

Whatever action is taken needs to be balanced and based on fact.

In many fields decisions have to be taken based on the weight of available evidence at that time. Because of the unavoidable time delays in remedying climate damage, delaying until effects are more easily visible may make the situation unrecoverable.

There is a precautionary principle here.

I would suggest it would be more of a 'crime against humanity' to take no action and possibly wait too late than to take measured and balanced action now.

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This also raises the issue of what constitutes enough evidence: there has been a concerted effort from the right to deny, distort, and sow doubt in the whole climate field. The tactics (delay, distortion, funding of alternate voices and 'evidence') are similar to those used decades ago by the tobacco companies to counter the emerging (scientific) evidence about the harmfulness of smoking. Part of the strategy is to delay the time when the public will accept that the scientific evidence is unequivocal and overwhelming and that action needs to be taken.

The end goal is the same in both cases - preservation of profit margins.

That is the real crime in all this.

So now profits are evil. Your true colors revealed. It is obvious you and me will never agree. Maybe this will make you "feel" better. It looks like the world is on verge of global recession. GDPs all over the world are declining. People are dying every day. Freedoms are being taken away daily. All this goes to your socialist agenda of less profit to the "capitalists" and more haphazard wealth transfers. The new normal, the new world order. So you want to do more? Here in California we just had a primary to put another tax on cigarettes on top of all the others that already exist to balance the state budget. The votes are still being counted and as of today, it is losing. I suggest to you the people who voted against it like myself are for the most part, non-smokers. We just don't like government trampling all over peoples freedoms and doing the money grab. I'm pretty sure everyone knows by now the effects of smoking, just as they know the dangers of riding motorcycle without a helmet, just as they know about not wearing a seat belt, not wearing sunscreen, not getting enough exercise or too much exercise, vitamin C...etc., etc., etc. There's a role for government. It should not be to be the babysitter. But that is what it has become, to give the "scientists" some "jobs" to justify the waste of tax dollars we throw at these so called "problems". But I'm sure you would disagree. The so called "scientific community" would never try to scam us or try to profit, would they? Really, you live in a box. It's another nice day here in CA. I think I'll go outside.