Especially from Mr Kitchen, who pointedly avoids answering questions about his assertions.
Believe it or not, I do have a life, and cant respond all the time. I also sleep, crazy right?
But anyway, Bjorn Lomborg has done a lot of great analysis on climate change and how almost every possible outcome pushed by the left leaning environmentalists is nothing but hysteria. He also feels it is a great injustice we are doing for children, teaching them to live constant fear. The reality of what would happen is significantly less than what the left says, and not something to lose our minds over.
Also, the cost analysis shows it is not as dire as many say.
Essentially the cost of climate change will be 3 to 4% of GDP in 80 years if we went on the projection we are right now. If we took all of the mitigation efforts the left says we should, the cost to our current GDP would be anywhere from 16% to 32% every year for the foreseeable future. We would be destroying ourselves if we did this, and developing nations more then likely would be thrust back into abject poverty. This is because in order to come out of poverty, a country needs to acquire an energy source more powerful then wood, peat, dung, wind, etc., that is affordable to them. Fossil fuels are the only resource that fits this bill, with nuclear, solar and modern wind being way too expensive.
Sorry guys, but you on the left have lost me. Your arguments are so asinine and call for action so draconian they will never happen or last more then an election cycle. I'd much rather work with the right on environmental issues, who are much more pragmatic and sensible.
Going back to the hurricane debate, the the UN Climate Panel found in its report last year (I believe) that hurricanes haven’t increased. However, if you look at population expansion in the hurricane prone areas, the population has grown by a factor of 67. That is reason for increased damage from hurricanes.
This is almost always the case with much of the hysteria of climate change thrown to environmental events. It is largely explained by something completely different with much great logic.
