Wednesday, November 2, 2011

The Problem with Global Warming

So what's the problem? The problem is that you can accept all the basic tenets of greenhouse physics and still conclude that the threat of a dangerously large warming is so improbable as to be negligible, while the threat of real harm from climate-mitigation policies is already so high as to be worrying, that the cure is proving far worse than the disease is ever likely to be. Or as I put it once, we may be putting a tourniquet round our necks to stop a nosebleed.

--Matt Ridley, Author of The Rational Optimist (among others) in his great speech "Scientific Heresy"

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