(TED Talk) Amory Lovins: A 50-year plan for energy

[kristopher]

55. In other words you are going strictly by your own evaluation of the evidence

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...and disregarding the opinions of the IPCC etal.

I won't say you are wrong, but the presence of feedback isn't something that all of the climate researchers have overlooked. You'll note that even your reference uses the middle of the century as a reference point. If we were not on track in for building a new global energy system (yes it is still an infant) I would be more inclined to agree with you. But they economics of renewable energy are steadily surpassing expectations and not by just a little bit. For a decade I've been looking to China and India as the place where renewables are going to be birthed fully developed, and what I've seen in the past 5 years makes that belief even stronger.

I sincerely hope I'm right and that you are wrong, but I will admit to sharing some of your anxiety.

Perhaps you'd like me to kick it up a notch for you?

Hug The Monster’: Why So Many Climate Scientists Have Stopped Downplaying the Climate Threat
By Joe Romm on May 7, 2012 at 5:33 pm



http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/05/07/478984/hug-the-monster-why-so-many-climate-scientists-have-stopped-downplaying-the-climate-threat/


There are some very good article on TP today, btw. You might want to check it out if you haven't:
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/issue/