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phorbin

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On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:56:18 -0800, Larry Jaques wrote:

Senor Blanchard and other alarmists are probably ****ting bricks about
this now.

Not really. If I'm wrong it'll,just balance out the time I was right
about (the lack of) those WMD in Iraq :-).

So was I... but I still figure that going with the idea of global
warming and reducing carbon footprint, consumption, etc. is the best
idea.

In an dramatic oversimplification:

If you are wrong and we do little to nothing, the consequences are
catastrophic. We lose.

If you are right and we do everything to avert global warming, we
continue to live and have cleaner technologies in place driven by the
idea of global warming. In short, we win.

If you are wrong and we do what's needed to mitigate the issue and we
manage to do so, we win.

I am self-interested enough to believe that the benefits presented by
the latter two, roughly stated cases outweigh the liabilities of the
former.