re: #191 freetoken

Too much emphasis, in discussions at contemporary event blogs such as this one, get bogged down in arguments over cataclysms.

This makes for heated exchanges but overlooks the real issues of slow aridification, shifting precipitations patterns, changes in local flora, etc. that result from changing climates.

Everyone argues over a Roland Emmerich type scenario… whereas the reality we face is one of change too gradual for any Hollywood blockbuster, but still way too quick for us to adapt to with our agricultural and economic systems, not to mention the rest of biosphere.

Very, very well said.

It costs to adapt to change. It costs species to adapt. It will cost us to adapt as well. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

That doesn’t mean that our quality of life can’t be better a hundred years from now, with less energy use, than it is now.

re: #167 Cato the Elder

Whether it’s GW or AGW, what hubris tells us we can control it?

The “A” in AGW tells us that, and tells us that it’s not hubris.

Enjoy your reading. I hope that our scientists and engineers and everyone else are able to meet your criteria. I do hope that you don’t simply stop thinking about the topic. That’s never a good course of action.