Re: OT: interesting global warming quote found elsewhwere

John Larkin <jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:23:43 +0100, Eeyore
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Kris Krieger wrote:

OK, explain something to me.

We've either reached, or will soon reach, peak petroleum production
- that's what the oil experts themselves say. So that in and of
itself indicates thet alterantive energy sources need to be
developed. Given that fact, what is the payoff/reward/advantage for
Exxon to refute global warming? If petroleum is, or will soon be,
on the decline, wouldn't it be smarter for them to use all that
money to instead expand out from being "an oil company" to being "an
energy company", which is what BP claims it's doing? IOW, if oil is
on the decline, Exxon will eventually start losing profits
*regardless* of any question about global warming, so by spending
money on countering global warming, ratehr than spending it upon
things taht would actually keep them in business for the long- term,
arent tehy just shooting themselves in the foot so to speak?

You couldn't have put it better.


Also, as I've asked in the past, wouldn't CO2 be lowered if
non-polluting or less-polluting energy sources continue to be
developed? ANy dope knows that pollutants cause various sorts of
harm, so why are poeple clawing at one another over global warming,
rather than using that brain- power and human energy to counteract
pollution?

Re: CO2, if planting trees helps reduce CO2, well, it *also*
beautifies and helps cool the areas where they're planted.

I'd re-forest Scotland for one.


It just seems to me that the bickering about global warming
distracts people from taking real, current action to solve
well-known problems...

Absolutely.


and just who benefits from that, I wonder?

Politicicians and unrepresentative tiny pressure groups.

Graham


There was an article in today's paper about a neighborhood in Pakistan
where people are suffering because of the recent jump in the price of
food. One thing they are doing is selling their kidneys to feed their
kids. THAT is a *real* consequence of AGW theory.

John



No, sorry, that's not a consequence of a theory; you place far too much
power in one theory. Food prices go up becasue of multiple factors -
fuel costs, desertification, deforestation that screws up both weather
patterns and soil-fertility, increased population which leads to
increased demand on everything, *plus* the arrogance of a few countries
behaving as tho' the rest of the world is supposed to conserve and scrimp
so as to allow themselves, the Chosen Few, to squander at will.

AGW theory, as you put it, is just a scapegoat, an excuse to do nothing
to try to correct known, real, current problems.


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