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We just accept that our world is changing and enjoy it

Steve

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Danish statistician Bjørn Lomborg is a voice of sanity in the global warming debate. In an op-ed last week he correctly points out that expensive efforts like Kyoto have achieved nearly nothing.

The only possible lesson is that agreements to reduce carbon emissions are costly, politically arduous and ultimately ineffective.

But this is a lesson many are hell-bent on ignoring, as politicians plan to gather again

Some economic models find that target impossible to reach without drastic action, like cutting the world population by a third. Other models show that achieving the target by a high CO2 tax would reduce world GDP a staggering 12.9% in 2100—the equivalent of $40 trillion a year.

A high carbon tax will simply hurt growth if alternative technology is not ready, making us all worse off.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203706604574376442559564788.html?mod=rss_opinion_main

so to get the job done we must take drastic actions.. like cutting a third of the world population... and spending 40 trillion a year...

I guess if you can afford your share of the 40 trillion.. you get to stay.. otherwise.. well sorry,... but termination papers are being sent out ,...

as for me.. I am against killing a third of our population, so I'm looking forward to a great tan and alot more jet skiing...

our motto should be adapt and overcome!
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Lonecowboy

Well-known member
But Steve-

How oh how could we ever enjoy a world without polar bears-
where wisconsin is the new Arkansas-
where many coastlines will be uninhabitable-

it's just not right I say- not right at all

of course I have no evidence to support this-
but it could happen!

I'm willing to risk all that we have on a bet that it will happen-
can you even imagine a world without polar bears?
imagine no more polar bear pie for the eskimos!

and you want to be selfish and adapt to what is, not try and prevent what could be- for shame!!
 

Steve

Well-known member
Lonecowboy said:
But Steve-

How oh how could we ever enjoy a world without polar bears-
where wisconsin is the new Arkansas-
where many coastlines will be uninhabitable-

it's just not right I say- not right at all

of course I have no evidence to support this-
but it could happen!

I'm willing to risk all that we have on a bet that it will happen-
can you even imagine a world without polar bears?
imagine no more polar bear pie for the eskimos!

and you want to be selfish and adapt to what is, not try and prevent what could be- for shame!!

I am in favor of environmental stewardship.. and feel we should all do what we can to save the environment.. planet and species..

but the planet has been warming for at least 4000 years.. we now want to stop the process... so we can maintain the status as it is now... isn't that selfish in itself...

as for the polar bears.. seems they are already adapting...
In order for a species to be classified as “endangered”, its population needs to suffer a serious downturn. According to the World Wildlife Fund, there are twenty polar bear populations world-wide, totalling 22,000 bears–up from approximately 8,000 in the 1970’s. Two populations are decreasing (16.4% of total), two are increasing (13.6% of total) and ten are stable (45.4% of total). Ironically, the decreasing populations are located in regions such as Baffin Bay which are growing colder, whereas the increasing populations are in areas where the water is warming, such as near the Bering Strait.

Two-thirds of the world’s polar bears live in Canada. Of the thirteen polar bear populations there, just two are in decline. Canada’s easternmost Arctic territory, Nunavut, hosts twelve of those populations, and in the Davis Strait, the number of polar bears has dramatically increased. In the mid-1980’s, there were 850 bears. As of 1997, there were 2,100 bears, and there may have been as many as 2,600 in 2004. The local Inuits are reporting more polar bears are wandering into their towns and villages, where they are a threat to children. Mitch Taylor, a leading Canadian authority on polar bears, has estimatied that during the past decade, the Canadian polar bear population has increased by 25 per cent–from 12,000 to 15,000 bears.
 
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