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Quote by: xyzer  People like Gore profit from these studies by predicting a climate armageddon if something isn't done to prohibit human industrial activity. |
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Do you define "profit" here in pecuniary terms?
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They don't seem to consider the economic impact of drastic cut backs of industrial enterprise and the risk that human caused emissions may not be a major contributor? They discount the importance of natural non human related climate influences and how mankind can not temper these natural cycles..
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Could you please define "they?"
Scientists aren't in the business of economics. If they tell you you're making the planet warmer, and at the present pace of CO2 output you'll be X degrees hotter in 100 years, it then becomes the job of policy makers to weigh the costs and benefits of such a future with the costs and benefits of taking no action. Part of the problem is so many people are skeptical of science. And even when they aren't, people prefer their fun now rather than later; we tend to live with blinders on, for today. This is a good heuristic in some cases but not all.
There are methods of GW mitigation that capitatlize on the vitality, efficiency and creativity of free markets, e.g. emissions trading.