Jim,



Again this debate it very off topic for this forum (particularly in the level of detail we are getting in to ).



The truth is, neither you nor I know for CERTAIN which side is right. I'm betting on the climatologists themselves, you're betting on the skeptics. It might be tempting to think it doesn't matter, and just agree to disagree. But then there is the question of consequences.



If the skeptics are right, and yet we go ahead and drastically reduce carbon emissions worldwide, then in 50 years we'll have had little effect on the climate itself, but our children will be living in a world with far less pollution and far more efficient industries. For example, they'll be able to go fishing just about anywhere and actually consume the fish they catch LOL. Yes, there will be a transition period during which the change to clean energy sources (and I include nuclear here) will cause some degree of economic dislocation, but the future we emerge into will not only be a brighter one, but one that would eventually have been forced upon us (by scarcity of fossil fuels) in any case!



If the climatologists are right, yet the skeptics prevail (and little or nothing is done to reduce carbon emissions worldwide) Then we shall face a future of almost unimaginable horror and privation, in which literal billions could and would perish, and some of humanities largest cities would be inundated (since most of our largest cities are coastal). Although it might not be a threat to our survival as a species, it would most certainly be an existential threat to our CULTURE.



I readily admit I might be incorrect in defending AGCC. Are you SO SURE that you're right that you're willing to accept the consequences if you are wrong?
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