🚀 go-pugleaf

On 3/31/2012 7:27 PM, RLW wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:18:28 -0400, Leonard wrote:
>
>> Abracadabra,  No More Mediæval Warm Period!
>>
>> The lies behind the failed Hockey Stick
>
> <yada, yada, yada>
>
> I'm starting to get the impression that few posting here actually know
> what the "hockey stick" graph was intended to represent: runaway, nearly
> limitless increase in surface temperature.
>
> A) We know that's wrong.
>
> B) We know that the troposphere is getting warmer.
>
> (A) does nothing to disprove (B).  Indeed, (B) is something *observed*,
> not a matter open to debate.
>
> (B) means that a lot of weather patterns will change and a lot of ice will
> melt.  This doesn't mean Humanity will die off, but it will be very damn'
> expensive and inconvenient for a good many folks.
>
> I'll hate having to explain to my grandkids that everyone stood around
> debating whether it was happening instead of figuring out what impact it
> will have and how to solve some of the attendant problems.

The assumption is it that warming will be all bad.  How many studies 
have been done on the potential benefits of global warming?  What it 
comes down to is the cost of adaption versus the cost of correction. 
That's assuming it can be corrected, and in the view of a substantial 
portion of the scientific community the results would be modest or 
negligible at best.

The big problem is elements of the political sphere have been trying 
their best to hook irrelevant agendas to climate change, and to exploit 
it as a tool to push things that wouldn't get backing otherwise.  Get 
people alarmed, induce feelings of insecurity, then they'll be less 
resistant when it comes to unpopular causes that have little or nothing 
to do with climate change.

It's interesting that the Darrell Kaufman study showed climate has been 
experiencing a long term cooling trend, starting about 2,000 years ago, 
and was projected to go on another 4,000 years. Is it possible we're 
actually better off with a little warming?  Quite possibly we've averted 
a future LIA...