tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7647685282789008730.post138425866713755066..comments2024-03-02T02:56:21.007+00:00Comments on ......SHOT BY BOTH SIDES: Alone Again OrKerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377996092374137641noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7647685282789008730.post-71988153782725138552010-01-27T20:07:12.932+00:002010-01-27T20:07:12.932+00:00Is it unreasonable that I find it alarming that ma...Is it unreasonable that I find it alarming that many (including yourself, presumably) advocate spending seemingly limitless amounts of money - money that it seems will be taken from the public, willing or not, through introduction and expansion of various taxes - on pursuing the reduction of CO2 emissions, without any test plan to see whether it's effective way of stopping climate change? Or without a plan B in case it's not?Bristol Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13143336218499645984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7647685282789008730.post-7614976957925891472010-01-23T01:23:03.807+00:002010-01-23T01:23:03.807+00:00Seems to me that you ask for certainty, or somethi...Seems to me that you ask for certainty, or something near it, Bristol Dave. This is unreasonable. <br /><br />Dont you insure your house, car, life and possibly health?? Given the potential for very large effects from climate change should we not insure ourselves against them by acting according to the best evidence we have? <br /><br />Spare me the conspiracy stuff - it detracts from otherwise plausible arguments that you raise.Glenn Vowleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02392000659876958930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7647685282789008730.post-5597369940122701962010-01-18T22:20:58.861+00:002010-01-18T22:20:58.861+00:00Good.
Until someone can provide me with not only ...Good.<br /><br />Until someone can provide me with not only satisfactory proof that we should be making punitive or (more likely) expensive changes to our lifestyle in the name of "reducing our carbon footprint", but perhaps far more importantly, a satisfactory way of testing whether these changes are having the desired effect, (which nobody seems to be able to) then I'm not sure we should!<br /><br /><b>Nobody seems to have a Plan B.</b> <br /><br />What if we continue with this obsession with CO2 and find that regardless of massive cuts in CO2 emissions, nothing happens and climate and everything else carries on as it has been? What do we do then? Cut more? At what point do we then admit that it doesn't work? And what if we make attempts to "reduce our carbon footprint" and things get better? How do we know it was down to the cuts we made, and not some other extraneous reason (meaning that if it happens again, the cuts may not work, and that the measures we did take were a waste of time and (more importantly) money)? Until these questions can be answered I'm not sure "reducing our carbon footprint" <i>should</i> be our number one priority, but alarmingly, nobody seems to be too bothered about the answers to these questions, which proves to me that it's at best overly-reactionary, and at worst, a front for a rather more sinister end.Bristol Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13143336218499645984noreply@blogger.com