Saturday, October 19, 2013

We're cooking the planet (part 11)


Global climate change and global warming are monstrously frightening. It sickens me and saddens me that our grandchildren are going to live through it….

A few days ago the Los Angeles Times decided to take it to a higher level: LAT editors decided they will no longer publish letters or comments from those who "deny" man's dangerous impact on climate change. Editor Paul Thornton wrote:

"…when deciding which letters should run among hundreds on such weighty matters as climate change, I must rely on the experts -- in other words, those scientists with advanced degrees who undertake tedious research and rigorous peer review . . . The debate right now isn't whether this evidence exists (clearly, it does) but what this evidence means for us . . . Saying 'there's no sign humans have caused climate change' is not stating an opinion, it's asserting a factual inaccuracy."

Of course there's still much more to learn about global climate change, we're far from knowing enough about the details and understanding the impacts—and certainly reasonable people can and must debate about what we should do to improve the future for our grandchildren. And of course it's going to be frighteningly expensive.

Let's get on with doing something about it.













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