--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote:
> If the worst fears of AGW believers come true, I > hope that those delegates from the U.S., from Japan, > from China, and from other industrialized nations > that kept real emission reduction from being even > *discussed* at this summit are the first to be > dragged out of their homes into the streets and > staked out on a beach somewhere, there to await > the "rising tide." ;-) The danger as I see it is the fixation on CO2. It's genuine pollution and water scarcity and famine and poverty that gets lost in all of this (not to mention the likelihood of a more nuclear world). In the popular imagination CO2 becomes "emissions" which becomes "pollutants" which becomes "toxic" which becomes "poison". The BBC for example will typically illustrate the mention of CO2 with smoke and fumes pouring out of industrial chimney stacks. For sceptics, James Hansen of NASA is the "arch villain". But in coming out against the Copenhagen jamboree and it's promotion of a market in "carbon indulgences", he seems to me to be right about something at least! If you haven't seen it, I wonder if you would be interested in this article by A.A.Gill on Copenhagen: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/copenhagen/article6954391.ece http://tinyurl.com/ybdvvp2 His take: "But, despite that, what makes the green movement triumphantly successful is that it has the most important and precious of things: it has a story. It is telling us our own saga, the adventure of saving the world. This has all the elements of a great myth, the impossible trials, the dragons and giants to be defeated, the magic seeds to be found, the wells and fountains of health and youth, the band of brothers, the implacable enemy. The princesses to be rescued. The kingdoms to be won. If you look at the global warming debate as simply the first draft of the first new creation myth to be invented in thousands of years, then you see why it's irresistible. Who wouldn't want to be part of their own fairy tale?"
