Re: [silk] Climate Panel Cites Near Certainty on Warming - NYTimes.com

2013-08-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 06:14:09AM +0530, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: Crude Oil was $30 a decade ago, $110 now and likely $250 in a decade. India Won't happen due to demand destruction (assuming you account for inflation). Which is a bad thing, obviously, given that there are no alternatives to

[silk] Climate Panel Cites Near Certainty on Warming - NYTimes.com

2013-08-24 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
The old saying is you can wake someone who's asleep but not one who pretends to be asleep. Acknowledging climate change means to drill less for oil, and that's a civilizational challenge for the rich people in the here and now rather than fifty years from now. The poor people will die first

Re: [silk] Climate Panel Cites Near Certainty on Warming - NYTimes.com

2013-08-24 Thread SS
On Sun, 2013-08-25 at 06:14 +0530, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: India is a damn good one-trick pony in the survival game. I fear this time that trick won't be good enough. There is one problem about throwing such articles at Indians. They will pull philosophy into the argument and wrestle you