Norman Lynagh wrote:
The following site is quite interesting

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/aggi/

Table 2 and Fig 2 suggest to me that time and money would be best spent
on finding ways of coping with the inevitable climate changes rather
than pussy-footing around trying (unsuccessfully?) to find ways of
reducing the growth in emissions by a few percent. But I suppose that
drawing up a plan for the evacuation of Central London within the next
50-100 years is not exactly a short-term vote winner :-)



Very well said!

The issue of who or what is to blame seems to have more importance than working
out how to adapt to the consequences, when in fact it does not matter.

Those who favour the 'people did it' view automatically move along to the 'then
people will fix it' view, all the while missing the point that if their view is
correct, then it was always too late to try to mend something by damaging it a
bit less in future. There are more important things than their egos.

Your point about votes does highlight the main flaw in partisan representative
democracies ... they are very partisan, not very representative, and barely
democratic.



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Gianna

http://www.buchan-meteo.org.uk
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