[edsheppa]

"Hell, we buy fire insurance based on a 1 per cent chance," he said.

A) I think this is what the Administration is saying, that, as insurance, we should pursue active technological means to control Earth's temperature.

B) But it's not a good comparison. We have a vast amount of past experience with fires. We have zero experience predicting Earth's future temperature at all, let alone fifty or a hundred years out.

[geopyg]

"We have a vast amount of past experience with fires."

I know you're talking about house fires, but it reminds me of how we're still trying to figure out how to manage fires in our National Parks and wilderness areas. A mistake in that management leads to thousands of acres being burned in Yellowstone etc., but not that big of a deal compared to a mistake in 'global climate management".

I think any experiments should first be done on Mars to see if we can keep THOSE ice caps from continuing to melt and to determine what the problems/adverse outcomes will be before we test it on earth. ;)