Comments on: Climate Change: Why We Worry

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:07:31 +0000

Actually, banning DDT has produced some very serious negative consequences, i.e millions of uneccessary deaths from Malaria in Africa. Overreaction to real or perceived threats can have serious consequences. Overreaction to perceived climate change will also produce very serious negative consequences on the prospects for a better life for the poorest populations on earth. Check out the works of Bjorn Lomborg for a detailed perspective on this.

By: dr ved parkash sheoran

dr ved parkash sheoran — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:09:16 +0000

thought provoking article

By: Mr. Smith

Mr. Smith — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:22:18 +0000

John, not to bust your chops too badly, but you don’t apply the same criteria to the people arguing against AGW. The petroleum and coal industry say it’s a hoax…and that doesn’t set off your crap detector?

Every time an environmental issue mandates a change (acid rain, DDT, CFCs, PCBs, asbestos, unleaded gasoline, etc, etc, etc) industry and various politicians wail and kvetch that the world will end and our economy will collapse and every time they have been proven wrong.

By: John

John — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:31:38 +0000

No evidence of a grand conspiracy or hoax. Just scientists acting like humans (though perhaps sometimes naughty ones).

True, there’s no evidence of a grand conspiracy — just scientific fraud by a major research institution.

Yes, the emails show scientists acting like humans. That’s the point, Sarah. Humans lie, cheat, and exaggerate. That’s why people are skeptical. Either scientists are godlike creatures whose every utterance from on high should be taken as gospel, or they’re human beings and we should regard their doomsday prophecies with skepticism.

My own opinion: I think that AGW is probably real, but I think that its effects have been exaggerated. Why?

1. Doomsday scenarios (e.g. Global Cooling, Population Bomb) by environmentalists have never, ever, ever, ever come true. Did you notice that, Sarah? No second ice age, no population explosion leading to mass, civilization-destroying famines. Never happened.

2. The leaders of the AGW alarmism movement live in mansions and fly private jets. They aren’t acting like the End is Nigh. As Glenn Reynolds says “I’ll believe that it’s a crisis when people who say that it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.”