One of the World's Foremost Meteorologists Has Called the Theory That Helped Al Gore Share the Nobel Peace Prize "ridiculous"

Re:One of the World's Foremost Meteorologists Has Called the... by tokipin on Monday October 15, 2007 @10:01AM (#68027)

the notion that humans could affect earth this much is laughable. we could smother the surface with nuclear explosions and the world would repair itself as an organism, never mind something as negligible as human CO2 emissions

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Re:One of the World's Foremost Meteorologists Has Called the... by bct on Monday October 15, 2007 @12:17PM (#68072)

Sure, Earth would recover. It would be pretty bad for humanity in general, and you and I in specific, though.

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Re:One of the World's Foremost Meteorologists Has Called the... by tokipin on Monday October 15, 2007 @01:24PM (#68093)

yea, that's in the nuclear case. in the relevant case of human CO2 emissions, nothing is likely to happen. earth is an immensely stable self-repairing system

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Re:One of the World's Foremost Meteorologists Has Called the... by bct on Monday October 15, 2007 @01:50PM (#68105)

Again, nobody's claiming that the planet is going to have trouble with global warming. We humans have invested a lot into current climate patterns though, and the transition will be unpleasant.

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Re:One of the World's Foremost Meteorologists Has Called the... by tokipin on Monday October 15, 2007 @03:00PM (#68154)

i'm saying there won't be any transition caused by us

i do like the benefits of seeking efficiency. the sorts of technology that will arise when efficiency is economically supported (for example, by artificial markets a la kyoto or california's propositions) ie by necessity, should be impressive. for that reason i like the global warming movement and hope it continues so long as it has as a corollary a drive for efficiency

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