If you've got a spare hour you could do worse than watch this presentation by Richard A. Muller in which he discusses climate change.
The thing that the talk highlights is that while the developing world continues to develop, and he believes that they should, anything that the rest of the world does to cut emissions is ultimately pointless in the grand scheme of things. Ultimately, compared to the potential growth in China and India, the 20% cut in emissions that Western governments are trying to force on their populations is a drop in the ocean.
Therefore the only purpose of the range of measures we are being encouraged to adopt is to make us feel better about ourselves - ecosmugness if you will - because they unlikely to make the slightest bit of difference.
If you have the time it's worth watching the whole thing.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
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'Ecosmugness'. I like it :)
Bring on climate cooling, methinks.
Everybody rubbished CND beacause ut campaigned for "unilateral" ends. Maybe we should call warmists "unilateral warmists" thus exposing the folly of their position.
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