Gunnar wrote:Yet you don't respect the facts presented by the EXXON climate researchers and the overwhelming majority of all other climate scientists trying to warn us of the potential dangers of global warming. Even if the overwhelming consensus of climate scientists is somehow wrong, refusing to do anything at all to prevent or ameliorate the potentially bad consequences of global warming until everyone is absolutely sure about it is as foolish as refusing to buy fire insurance until you know that your house is already burning!
I sincerely wish that AGW really were not the problem that most scientists agree that it is, but even if it is not, most, if not all of the measures proposed to minimize it and its consequences are potentially of great benefit in the long run to innovative entrepreneurs, the overall economy and to job creation. Weaning us off our excessive dependence on fossil fuels, improving energy efficiency and minimizing waste of natural resources are all desirable goals, regardless of what is true or not true about AGW.
No, I don't respect your logically fallacious arguments and nutty claims.
For example, do you know how much CO2 a single mega-eruption like Kraktoa produced? It was about 100-120 Gigatons. So are you proposing that we design giant plugs to stop mega-eruptions? The idea that human beings (at our current level of progress) can meaningfully influence how the climate develops is patently absurd.
And there is no reason to stop using inexpensive energy sources like coal, oil, and gas. That is just stupid. All you are doing is driving up the price of energy which only hurts the poor.