Comments on: Prins and Rayner in Nature http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=4243 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:36:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: bigcitylib http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=4243&cpage=1#comment-9161 bigcitylib Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:24:33 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=4243#comment-9161 I find their own "solution" however to be largely unworkable. Putting the U.S federal government on a "wartime footing" means the federal government starts TELLING energy companies what to research, in the way Roosevelt TOLD the auto companies that they were to start making tanks to aid the wartime effort in WWII. Good luck with that. I find their own “solution” however to be largely unworkable. Putting the U.S federal government on a “wartime footing” means the federal government starts TELLING energy companies what to research, in the way Roosevelt TOLD the auto companies that they were to start making tanks to aid the wartime effort in WWII. Good luck with that.

]]> By: SciBuff http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=4243&cpage=1#comment-9160 SciBuff Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:54:00 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=4243#comment-9160 I found the Prins and Rayner article refreshing and as you point out, it is a brave attempt to apply common sense to climate policy. I wish them and like minded individuals a lot of luck. To illustrate the point, in one of my early internet searches I typed in the words “global waming” instead of global warming. The site that was retrieved at the top of the Google heap was one from the Vegan Society which showed how becoming a vegan would help me fight global warming. There were many special interest sites below the vegans. (Apparently, each was trying to capture the numerous internet surfers who can’t spell). The entire global warming/climate change issue has become a huge political choo choo train. There is absolutely no end to the people and political interest groups who have hooked their private rail cars on to it. The science that spawned the political movement has seemingly become an afterthought. Dr. Pielke, I know you have been a proponent of adaptation for many years. This seems like a reasonable thing to do no matter who wins the scientific debate. The world will get hotter. Droughts and hurricanes will occur. Finding a way to lessen the local human suffering from these things sounds a lot easier than trying to act as worldwide carbon police force. I found the Prins and Rayner article refreshing and as you point out, it is a brave attempt to apply common sense to climate policy. I wish them and like minded individuals a lot of luck. To illustrate the point, in one of my early internet searches I typed in the words “global waming” instead of global warming. The site that was retrieved at the top of the Google heap was one from the Vegan Society which showed how becoming a vegan would help me fight global warming. There were many special interest sites below the vegans. (Apparently, each was trying to capture the numerous internet surfers who can’t spell).

The entire global warming/climate change issue has become a huge political choo choo train. There is absolutely no end to the people and political interest groups who have hooked their private rail cars on to it. The science that spawned the political movement has seemingly become an afterthought.

Dr. Pielke, I know you have been a proponent of adaptation for many years. This seems like a reasonable thing to do no matter who wins the scientific debate. The world will get hotter. Droughts and hurricanes will occur. Finding a way to lessen the local human suffering from these things sounds a lot easier than trying to act as worldwide carbon police force.

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