Musn't Rush Things! Brazil Urges Delay In Any Binding Climate Talks Until 2013 - SMH

[AverageJoe90]

12. I wouldn't have called the NWS alarmist, though.

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There was a very real possibility that Katrina could have totally wiped out New Orleans instead of partly, and the city's geography certainly complicated things.

But I wouldn't have called the NWS alarmist, because this was indeed a much needed warning, based on actual evidence, mind you.

Also, we've seen devastating hurricanes before in our history. We've seen major cities undergo total, utter devastation. We've never seen a climate shift before. All we have to go on are suppositions about what the aftermath of the Toba supervolcano was like. We don't know how people got through it.

That may be true, I suppose, but it doesn't quite invalidate my point, though.

If there's a 5% chance that we're looking at the destruction of the biosphere, then we should act as though that's a possible outcome and we shouldn't totally ignore it.

Well, this is something that you and I would agree on.

You're up here pushing for a business as usual approach, and that's not going to cut it.

No, I never have. I've always been in favor of alternative technologies and reducing dirty fuel usage as soon as possible. Perhaps my solutions aren't as drastic as those of some others, and that may be true, but it's not exactly business-as-usual, either, though.