That was my first rant on GW(B?), there were a lot of others before I
weighed in with a weighty opinion. I think I have it out of my system,
and am searching for life. I found some a little while ago, will keep
looking.
My point is, I don't think anyone (much less you or me since we are not
climatologists) is sure of what the story is, but it ain't just the
Euro/US burden if indeed that is where part of the problem lay (in
addition to the sun, termites, cow farts, SUVs, temporal distortions,
quantum function flux, volcanoes, Chinese CFPPs and whatever else). But
it is so much easier to go after that target because most people there
have the economic luxury to perhaps actually listen and feel guilty. I
am taking a big risk to guess that the average (or even above average)
Chinese or Indian could really not care less about the topic as they are
too busy trying to enter the first (or second) world and burning that
cheap dirty coal is mighty easy to help get them there. So they say
"GFY with your carbon taxes while we get on with kicking your asses."
Algore and everyone else don't even bother to waste their time there,
where it might actually have more than a marginal effect on the future,
because they know no one will listen to them, much less act on it.
Guilt-tripping the "haves" with a feel-bad story is much easier. That
professor guy who wailed on Johnny Carson back in the 60s and 70s about
starving in the cold dark (global cooling, limits to growth,
overpopulation, nukes) was hailed as a true visionary, even before SUVs,
but fortunately for all of us his vision was wrong. I smell the same
deal with GW, and a lot of the same zealous followers involved 30-40
years on with the funding solution du jour. But, maybe I'm wrong too.
And besides that, bandwidth is struggling to be free! Free the OC3!!!
--R (who uses CF bulbs and plants lots of stuff)
andrew strasfogel wrote:
Rich needs to get a life so he has less time to rant and consume our
precious bandwidth. I'm really tired of his global warming diatribes.
While we are drawn into a specious debate, glaciers are melting and sea
levels rising (though not the fault of the USA or Canada, rest assured!).
I do agree that the western world needs to persuade/pressure China and India
to step up to the plate now and make some hard choices to rein in their
addicton to coal fired power plants.
