Reason has been tolerating this particular brand of unreason - that is, the climate-change naysaying - for a long time. Hearteningly, it is learning to stop. You don't like a little brusqueness in defense of human life, move to some other planet.
>You don't like a little brusqueness in defense of human life, move to some other planet.
That's funny, I haven't heard that any serious scientist thought human life was threatened in the near future, outside of Bangladesh. The "we're all going to die" crowd seems to be on the side of unreason to me. They are once again letting there environmentalist ideology run ahead of the evidence, but this time they unfortunately have the ears of the world's governments.
A 2% improvement yearly means a doubling in 35 years. Think about that next time someone talks about the minor cost of slightly dampening economic growth. The third world would certainly be better off with climate change and twice the wealth than slightly delayed climate change and the same level of wealth.
Either way, the solution to this and any problem is engineering. I'm formulating an essay on this topic that I'll post soon.
