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**ElegeExcest** · 02-02-2011, 01:08 PM

The questions for serious people are:

1. How much, if any significant impact are we having on it
2. What, if anything can we do to mitigate any contribution our activities are making towards it
3. What are the costs to society of doing those things which can, if possible, mitigate our contributions
4. What are the costs to society of adapting to, rather than trying to change climate change
5. Are the costs to simply adapt to the change greater or less than the costs of trying to stop it.

Sounds like a good summary to me.

Some people still seem to think that the debate is stuck at "is the planet getting warmer". Yes, it is getting warmer. That is pretty much unanimously agreed upon. Our effect on that warming and if we can do anything about it is where the debate has long moved to.

And then Al Gore comes in and ruins everything.

02-02-2011, 01:08 PM	#27
ElegeExcest Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 430 Senior Member	The questions for serious people are: 1. How much, if any significant impact are we having on it 2. What, if anything can we do to mitigate any contribution our activities are making towards it 3. What are the costs to society of doing those things which can, if possible, mitigate our contributions 4. What are the costs to society of adapting to, rather than trying to change climate change 5. Are the costs to simply adapt to the change greater or less than the costs of trying to stop it. Sounds like a good summary to me. Some people still seem to think that the debate is stuck at "is the planet getting warmer". Yes, it is getting warmer. That is pretty much unanimously agreed upon. Our effect on that warming and if we can do anything about it is where the debate has long moved to. And then Al Gore comes in and ruins everything.
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