Comment 34999

By Ted Mitchell (registered) | Posted October 28, 2009 at 00:42:11

While it is clear that climate science has a lot of political and media confounders mixed in with it, you really have to be both psychotic and self-centered, thinking you're a modern day Galileo to stand up and say things like 'global warming is not happening', 'humans are not causing this' and 'co2 has nothing to do with climate change'.

Look at the CO2 graphs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carbon... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Co2-te...

The evidence is all over the place, from freak weather events to melting glaciers and ice caps. In this part of north america we've been mostly spared, but ask even the most right wing Aussie whether this is real or not and they'll agree.

If you look at what some of Solomon's chosen scientists have said, it is hardly what he is insinuating, so I guess moderation doesn't sell books. e.g. interview with Freeman Dyson http://www.e360.yale.edu/content/feature... makes it clear Dyson doubts the accuracy of climate models owing to the uncaptured complexity of the real system (so do I) but also admits he doesn't know much about the whole thing (so maybe he should stock with theoretical physics?)

Given the complete lack of political traction that trying to decrease CO2 has had to date, there is something to be said about looking equally at the mitigating choices we can make. This might be more difficult than reducing CO2 in practice, but could get more acceptance because it is a challenge and not a (difficult) admission that our lifestyle is unforgivable.

'We're going to adapt to a changing climate' is a 'yes we can' statement that 'we're going to stop being such selfish pigs' is, however more honest, a downer.

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