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Looking back at my two comments, the difference in outlook is pretty stark.  Must have been that my medication had kicked in when I wrote the second comment!

posted by Dylan24 on January 6, 2005 at 10:24 AM | link to this | reply

Thanks for the invite here

seems like you have some interesting points going on.

posted by Moondawg on January 4, 2005 at 6:35 PM | link to this | reply

Well researched and

presented. I've seen and read many articles on the subject and your right on. It is my contention that the greed of man will soon lead to his downfall.

posted by Moondawg on January 4, 2005 at 6:34 PM | link to this | reply

Picking up on that, though, I think it would be quite possible to articulate the case against global climate change in a concise and politically adept way.  It would go something like, "Average global temperatures have gone up about 1 degree over the past century, and temperatures are expected to go up by 5 degrees over the next century.  That might not sound like a lot, but even slight rises in temperatures can have horrible consequences -- floods, droughts, hurricanes and other disasters that will threaten millions of lives unless we do something now!"  It is possible to articulate this argument and people are capable of listening and understanding even without becoming experts in environmental science.  But advocates for the environment are going to have to do a much better job putting the case forward than they are doing now.

posted by Dylan24 on January 4, 2005 at 1:25 PM | link to this | reply

Wow this is so detailed I actually found my attention drifting as in the environmental science course I took in college.  That's not a knock against you though; it's because of my adult attention deficit disorder.  The problem I see in this is that a rise in temperatures of 0.6 degrees and the anticipated rise of between 1 and 5 degrees, while significant, doesn't sound significant, and politics is about soundbytes which are not conducive to an explanation of why such a seemingly small increase will have catastrophic effects.  People in the U.S. for the most part (and maybe elsewhere?) have ridiculously short attention spans on such matters.  It's depressing.

posted by Dylan24 on January 4, 2005 at 10:59 AM | link to this | reply