Special report from the AP:
Victims of climate change, real and potential, appealed Tuesday for a vast increase in international aid to protect them from and compensate them for rising seas, crop-killing drought and other likely impacts of global warming.
Where to begin? Al Gore says sea levels will rise by 20 feet. His co-Nobelist IPCC’s number is less than that by a factor of ten.
Consensus!
Other impacts? John Brignell has about 600 of them. Highlights: “Atlantic less salty, Atlantic more salty, bananas destroyed, bananas grow, billions of deaths, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink…” and that’s only a sample of A through C. More consensus!
The article goes on to advocate a replacement for Kyoto when it expires in 2012, “aviation taxes or direct taxes on all fossil-fuel use,” and so on.
I might suggest actually identifying the problem before prescribing a solution.
These people have what I call The Certainty. They are Certain of the problem, and Certain of its solution. If you are not also Certain, or (worse!) disagree, well then you just have to be wrong, no matter your reasoning. Almost sounds like a religion…
