Posted on 11/30/2015 9:41:16 AM PST by EveningStar
Slower warming than predicted gives the world time to develop better energy technologies
The climate change debate has been polarized into a simple dichotomy. Either global warming is "real, man-made and dangerous," as Pres. Barack Obama thinks, or it's a "hoax," as Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe thinks. But there is a third possibility: that it is real, man-made and not dangerous, at least not for a long time.
This "lukewarm" option has been boosted by recent climate research, and if it is right, current policies may do more harm than good. For example, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and other bodies agree that the rush to grow biofuels, justified as a decarbonization measure, has raised food prices and contributed to rainforest destruction.
(Excerpt) Read more at scientificamerican.com ...
But we will see higher taxes, more restrictive regulations, and hyper-expanded governments just to be sure.
Didn’t Al Gore and the Goracles originally predict that islands and coastal regions would be underwater by 2010?
Ther eis a fourth choice: it is real and natural and there isn’t anything we can do about it.
It’s not the CO2, it’s that the ‘air’ is heated by IC engines, Electric motors, coal plants,lights, AC and heating units, and even our own bodies.
It does effect local weather, but has little to do with causing the ‘climate’ to change. The climate changes over long periods of time. Always has, always will.
No amount of money will change that.
Will not be dangerous until the next ice age rolls in to town.
This is the key point of the article. And I am pleased to see Scientific American finally make this point.
The article also notes how bad modeling has been and it points out that the IPCC has debunked most of the climate scares.
What the article doesn't elaborate on is: "what IS the optimal temperature/CO2 level?" The Petition Project makes it clear warmer temperatures and higher CO2 levels are beneficial, not harmful.
The article tries to make the point that climate change (in the form of warming) is an issue that is a century away; evidence suggests that cooling will be an issue long before over-warming will ever become an issue.
I used to read Scientific American religiously. Ditto National Review. Despite occasional fits of rationality like the above article, I will take a pass.
Scientific American stopped being a credible source on anything about the same time SNL ceased being funny.
Altering the narrative but wrongheaded underlying premise still the same.
They printed this in Scientific American? That’s big news. They’ve been AGW cheerleaders for quite a while.
This is precisely the change that is happening. We as a species have always existed between ice ages. Its just a matter of time before another occurs. If anything, we should be concerned about keeping the atmosphere warmed. All you have to is look in the night sky to see that all that black, and there is plenty of it, is cold. Freezing cold.
If the whole would will be controled by ISIS maybe the world should end—why? Our grandchildren will be dead or enslaved and all that the world has worked hard to build in the last 500 years will be blown up or gone. Why should we care?
Cold is the natural state of the universe. It is by a miracle of unimaginable chances that we are blessed with green house gasses. Wether you are athiest or a hard core creationist thank God for greenhouse gasses.
Come on now; Scientific Anti-American!
But there is a FOURTH possibility: that it is real, NATURALLY OCCURING and inevitable, at least it has been for a long, long time.
Yup.
I had subscribed for decades when new editorial management took over and slewed it to the left.
John Rennie
It will never be dangerous.
You're more likely to be trampled by a dinosaur that to be affected by man-made Climate Change.
At least dinosaurs existed at one time...
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