[ale] Disappointed in the recent climate research hack

[Jim Kinney]

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> "wattsupwiththat.com".
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It's the physicist in me that laughs when people use sites like that as a
reference to justify an argument.

I happen to have a relative who works in the climate research field. Within
the field there is about as much unanimity for climate change being
detrimental to human existence as there is within Biology for evolution as a
process that creates new species.

While a particular method or technique may be under intense scrutiny for
validity, what is under test is not "if" it happens but "how bad" and "how
soon" and people are beginning to look at "what can we do about it".

Sadly, this topic will affect every person on the planet and there are damn
few with the background to have it make sense and none of them are in the
places that have an impact of those people that can really make changes.
People are going to die. At this point it doesn't even need to be
catastrophic climate change. Just the population explosion is bad enough. To
really have an impact on climate change factors will require a near complete
collapse of the global economy since it will require a cut back in energy
consumption for decades to give time for the nuclear plants to be built and
come online. There's other pollution problems with those power sources as
well that have to be mitigated but for now, barring solar powered CO2
scrubbers that can remove all the CO2 produced daily by cars and industry,
it's an easier mitigation problem as it's a solid and not (usually) a gas.

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James P. Kinney III
Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness
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