tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post8484795235472890055..comments2023-12-17T19:35:07.459-08:00Comments on Bouphonia: Fruitful GroundPhilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-25503341916840882562007-05-04T13:58:00.000-07:002007-05-04T13:58:00.000-07:00I stumbled across your blog, and at the risk of ig...I stumbled across your blog, and at the risk of ignoring your kind invitation to "shut the fuck up", I just like to suggest that you look for allies where you can get them. <BR/><BR/>I think that any open-minded reading of the science of global warming leads to an essentially mdoerate position: (1) AGW is real, and (2) we have an extremely limited ability to quantitatively predict how severe it will be under any emissions scenario. <BR/><BR/>Building a political program around alarmist scenarios, as opposed to something like the UN IPCC base case, is as likely to self-defeating as ignoring the real risks of climate change.<BR/><BR/>A point I was trying to make in the blog post that you quoted was that the Planet Gore "side" in the debate would actually serve itself, as well as the world as a whole, better by constantly adjusting its position to reflect new knowledge. Climate science is in its infancy, and imagining that any scientific camp is absolutely right is probably a sucker bet.<BR/><BR/>Best,<BR/>Jim ManziAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com