Posted 7/17/2007 05:14:00 PM by Douglas

Do overly-sensationalized headlines mean less if you end them with a question? Probably not, but it doesn't stop people from trying to scare the crap out of old people about GLOBAL WARMING!!!

A lot of scientists are diving into this field, a lot of different specialties, a lot of climate scientists who didn't study hurricanes before. That's a good thing because people are going to be picking apart the theory and the data from a variety of different angles and they're going to be doing new kinds of studies. For instance, what happens to storm size, has that changed over time? What happens to rapid intensification? Is that occurring more frequently? I think we're really going to have clearer answers in about five years. I'm not saying we're going to have all the answers. But that doesn't mean we have to wait, policy-wise.

We should basically acknowledge there's a scientific debate. That's a fact. And we need to acknowledge that we're so incredibly vulnerable to hurricanes, and so underprepared, that the scientific debate can pretty much follow its course while we do practical things. Global warming is a problem, and global warming needs to be addressed with climate solutions such as emission caps and better fuel efficiency.

Catch that? It's a problem, it's a debate in the scientific community, but you need to reduce you carbon emissions, you evil, evil, industrialists. What are you thinking?