lolwot
Thanks for explaining your opinion.
It still doesn’t make sense to me, as a rational person.
It appears to me that you are totally frightened, i.e. suffering under one of the strongest and most primeval of all emotions: FEAR.
Fear of a virtual, computer created threat, which you have been unable to define in any detail, i.e. fear of an imagined horrible unknown.
This would explain to me why you are so emotional in discussing the open letter by the scientists, who were apparently not as emotional about this perceived threat as you appear to be.
I’m personally not moved principally by emotion in this ongoing scientific and political debate – instead by rational skepticism.
So I can accept the open letter as the rational conclusion of a group of pretty intelligent individuals on the potential risks and benefits of AGW, itself, as well as of proposed actions to drastically reduce carbon emissions globally.
Their conclusion is simply that the cures that are being proposed would certainly be far more disruptive to our society, in particular to the least affluent among us, than the postulated threat might possibly be in the future, even in its worst incarnation.
As a rational skeptic, this position makes good sense to me, as I have seen no empirical evidence to support the postulation that there is a serious potential threat to human society or to our environment from AGW.
Since you have not stated specifically WHAT future threat you are afraid of, I must assume that it is simply a virtual, imagined hobgoblin in your mind, which causes you this strong emotion of fear.
My suggestion to you:
- List the specific threats you fear (i.e. 6 meter waves suddenly inundating coastal areas, severe droughts or deadly floods, dreadful hurricanes occurring with increasing frequency and severity, deadly killer heat waves, etc.)
- Then, one by one, look at why you think these horrible, imagined threats are going to happen if humans continue to use the remaining fossil fuel reserves of our planet over the next couple of hundred years until they essentially run out and are replaced with new, as yet undeveloped, technologies.
- In doing so, insist on empirical scientific evidence, based on real-time physical observations or reproducible experimentation to support the individual threats you fear; if there is no such empirical evidence, then free yourself of the fear in your mind.
You’ll be a happier person, lolwot.
Max