Comments on: Why Climate Change is Unbearably Naked

By: David H Dennis

David H Dennis — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:50:38 +0000

Where did the idea come from that warming was bad, when people who live in the cold flock to warmer climates every chance they get?

Not to mention that there is much, much greater species diversity in warmer climates.

Cold weather is a far more dangerous thing than excessive heat, earthquakes, tornadoes and hurricanes combined:

http://www.nsc.org/research/odds.aspx
(See items X30-X39)

Of course warming has negative consequences. Our job is to figure out how to capture the benefits of warming while mitigating the costs.

Kyoto, even if successfully implemented, will have a negligible impact on global warming; is that not a clue that maybe it’s caused by factors that we don’t understand, and is something highly unlikely for us to be able to prevent?

Thanks for offering a skeptical view of all this. I would really love to see a detailed cost/benefit analysis that adds the obvious benefits of warming (a better overall life for most living in developed countries) balanced against the likely costs. People ignore the idea that warming has benefits and that makes me believe most work on this subject is a fraud.

By: alexjc38

alexjc38 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:45:54 +0000

I agree with Barbara & consider this site to be a very refreshing counterbalance to the frenzied doomsayers of the media. Keep up the fine work, Maurizio.

KuhnKat, the phlogiston link is really interesting – I had heard of phlogiston but hadn’t realised just how persistent and compelling the theory was, in its day. This surely deserves a blog post of its own!

By: omnologos

omnologos — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:02:53 +0000

thank you barbara for your kind words. Actually I wish I posted less often, because that would mean I would be more on vacation, as I was until a few hours ago

By: alexjc38

alexjc38 — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:14:55 +0000

One thing to remember is that AGW has had a couple of decades to build up momentum, like some gigantic ship that takes an age to turn around. There are scientists out there making observations that appear to go against the great clumsy behemoth of AGW (a good example being the scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute, who have cautiously reported cooling oceans in both hemispheres) but their voices are not really being heard yet. I think a quiet persistence may be key here. If the oceans are cooling, if sea level rise has slowed or stopped, if it turns out that man-made CO2 is not raising global temperatures, the truth will become impossible to hide. But we may have to wait a while, before it is able to build up some momentum of its own.

By: KuhnKat

KuhnKat — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:00:35 +0000

Mendellian transmission, Dark Matter/Dark Energy, AGW, Phlogiston…

http://www.jimloy.com/physics/phlogstn.htm

By: barbara

barbara — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:48:33 +0000

This may not be the right place to put this. I just wanted to say that I really like your site. You discuss the facts without a lot of ranting and are very informative.

I just wish you posted more often.

Thanks for your work and your attention to this issue.

Barbara