Comments on: Cost of Fighting Global Warming Could be $45 Trillion

By: William

William — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:14:43 +0000

I always love this tax the corporations concept. We know that is shorthand for tax the people. All costs are passed on.

By: Avinash_Tyagi

Avinash_Tyagi — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:48:08 +0000

lol, Jimmy, the best way to determine weather changes and patterns are based on average temperatures, not on day to day changes which can be very volatile, but on ranges over the course of months, years, even decades, the problem with basing your beliefs on too few data points is your data can be skewed by small scale events like a pressure system

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Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:59:06 +0000

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By: Jimmy the Dhimmi

Jimmy the Dhimmi — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:59:45 +0000

Oops, I guess I was wrong. It was in the 50’s today, but tomorrow its going to get up around 90 and meteorologists in the greater Boston area predict an upcoming heat wave. Therefore global warming appears to be causing global warming again, rather than cooling. At least for the next 2 weeks.

By: Avinash_Tyagi

Avinash_Tyagi — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:41:22 +0000

lol Nah, that movie was a vast exaggeration, however there will be a cooling of the northern part of the hemisphere, not to the point as shown in the movie, but it will get colder

By: Justin Gardner

Justin Gardner — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:08:29 +0000

And when the entire northern hemisphere is covered in 50 feet of snow, will I be able to walk from Philadelphia to New York in less than 15 minutes while wearing snow-shoes, like Dennis Quaid did?

Well, you have to remember that it is Dennis Quaid. He’s no mere mortal.

By: Jimmy the Dhimmi

Jimmy the Dhimmi — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:52:50 +0000

And when the entire northern hemisphere is covered in 50 feet of snow, will I be able to walk from Philadelphia to New York in less than 15 minutes while wearing snow-shoes, like Dennis Quaid did?

By: Avinash_Tyagi

Avinash_Tyagi — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:13:25 +0000

Jimmy, of course its colder in the more northern states, haven’t you watched the discovery channel? The northern part of the country will get colder as global warming occurs, due to shifting air currents and water currents, its around the equatorial belt and the tropics that things will get hotter, as a result these changes will lead to increased droughts in many of our food production regions, and an increase in the size of our deserts, therein lies the problem, the earth’s carrying capacity will drop as that occurs, and since our population is going towards 9-10 billion that will be a problem as food shortages increase

By: Jimmy the Dhimmi

Jimmy the Dhimmi — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:05:27 +0000

Ray Kurzweil, author of “The Singularity is Near,” makes the observation that solar power currently constitutes about 1% of of the world’s energy needs, yet its capcity has been doubling every 2 years. Therefore, he predicts that 25 years from now we may be able to supplant all of our energy needs with solar.

If this is the case, and we are confident in that investment, then we should simply abandon all of this cap-and-trade legislation completely, and push our economy as fast as it can go with all of the petroleum available to us, in order to create as much capital we can in order to bring about this changeover as quickly as possible.

Not to mention that anthropogenic global warming is turning out to be a sham anyway (its June and its friggin cold out here in MA!).

We have barely scratched the surface of whats necessary to cut greenhouse gasses to these arbitrary standards assigned by partisan politicians and beurocrats. Yet, these relatively small policy changes have created food riots in Haiti, Pakistan, Indonesia ect, augmenting already crazy gas prices, and none of the CO2 reduction goals have been met by the any of the Kyoto states.

The costs of fighting global warming will far outweigh the damage that global warming may cause. Hopefully, our leaders will get the message soon enough.