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December 12 Oil: Liquid Solar Energy, Aged to PerfectionPerhaps such a thing exists: a Global Warming Hype-O-Meter. I envision this as a graph of the key indicators of disaster, plotted over time. Interesting indicators might be the predicted rate of temperature rise, glacier melt and ocean rise, the year when the irreversible knee in the curve will occur and the magnitude of predicted climate and species impact.
I haven’t looked at the data, but it feels to me like we’re in about year four of a bidding war for the most extreme predications.
The reason such a meter is important is that it definitely appears that greenhouse gases are increasing and the earth is warming. The industrial trajectory of China and India over the next 10 years likely means the rate of rise of these gas will increase. There might be a serious environmental problem brewing.
The problem is that without the meter to tell you when the hype is on the decline, the information you can get about global warming just isn’t serious. The current collection of anti-capitalists, big government intellectuals and back to nature types have a really bad track record for correctly predicting the next human induced environmental catastrophe (see: “mass starvation”, “ice age”, “energy crisis”). The only thing they consistently agree on is that some freedoms need to be sacrificed, now, to save the planet at some point in the future. Mike. Comments (3)
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