Comments on: An Inconvenient truth, or an inconvenient lie? http://blog.joshtheaspie.com/2007/04/05/an-inconvenient-truth-or-an-inconvenient-lie/ The thoughts of an Aspie on Technology, Politics, and Everything. - The Answer isn't always 42. Mon, 21 May 2012 07:37:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Ryvaken http://blog.joshtheaspie.com/2007/04/05/an-inconvenient-truth-or-an-inconvenient-lie/#comment-34 Ryvaken Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:49:38 +0000 http://blog.joshtheaspie.com/2007/04/05/an-inconvenient-truth-or-an-inconvenient-lie/#comment-34 Let us assume that one of the following assumptions is wrong.<br /> <br /> We assume that global warming is a disaster in waiting and attempt to reduce pollutants in the atmosphere to no effect on rising temperatures, but we scrub a lot of crap out of the air we're trying to breathe.<br /> <br /> We assume that global warming is a natural process and does not pose a threat. We all die as we render the planet uninhabitable.<br /> <br /> I've learned to not assume that global warming is the result of our idiot ancestors, but I choose to support any and all efforts in cleaning up the atmosphere regardless, in case we are wrong and inaction proves lethal. Let us assume that one of the following assumptions is wrong.

We assume that global warming is a disaster in waiting and attempt to reduce pollutants in the atmosphere to no effect on rising temperatures, but we scrub a lot of crap out of the air we’re trying to breathe.

We assume that global warming is a natural process and does not pose a threat. We all die as we render the planet uninhabitable.

I’ve learned to not assume that global warming is the result of our idiot ancestors, but I choose to support any and all efforts in cleaning up the atmosphere regardless, in case we are wrong and inaction proves lethal.

]]> By: Josh the Aspie http://blog.joshtheaspie.com/2007/04/05/an-inconvenient-truth-or-an-inconvenient-lie/#comment-35 Josh the Aspie Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:16:27 +0000 http://blog.joshtheaspie.com/2007/04/05/an-inconvenient-truth-or-an-inconvenient-lie/#comment-35 Ah, but do you support those efforts to clean up the global air that include preventing Africa from industrializing "just in case" and putting a tax on CO2 emissions "just in case"?<br /> <br /> I'm all for cleaning toxins and so forth out of our air by passing measures that lead to reductions in our own toxic output. What I'm not for is hefty fines on a gas that we, dying plants, and the oceans all produce in great amounts anyway, or preventing other countries from industrializing with political pressure.<br /> <br /> What's next, making cows illegal because cow farts contain methane? Ah, but do you support those efforts to clean up the global air that include preventing Africa from industrializing "just in case" and putting a tax on CO2 emissions "just in case"?

I’m all for cleaning toxins and so forth out of our air by passing measures that lead to reductions in our own toxic output. What I’m not for is hefty fines on a gas that we, dying plants, and the oceans all produce in great amounts anyway, or preventing other countries from industrializing with political pressure.

What’s next, making cows illegal because cow farts contain methane?

]]> By: Ryvaken http://blog.joshtheaspie.com/2007/04/05/an-inconvenient-truth-or-an-inconvenient-lie/#comment-36 Ryvaken Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:21:49 +0000 http://blog.joshtheaspie.com/2007/04/05/an-inconvenient-truth-or-an-inconvenient-lie/#comment-36 YES! :p<br /> <br /> All extremist views are invalid. Even the extremist view that extremist views are all bad. PARADOX! YES! :p

All extremist views are invalid. Even the extremist view that extremist views are all bad. PARADOX!

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