Are they really this bad. So let's make it a gas, man.
AJJewsbury:
Empirical evidence is always going to difficult … as we don't have any spare planet Earths to experiment with. By the time we find out with absolute certainty what the result is, it will be far too late to change anything. In terms of survival, there's a lot to be said for the precautionary principle.
Granted we could never do a randomised controlled trial using several Earths, but it is difficult to do a longitudinal study - the climate was changing long before the industrial revolution, and indeed before humans. So were sea levels.
What seems to be censored, if not self-censored, in the debate is the harm (or potential harm) from intervening.
If less developed countries effectively skip the fossil fuel era, will they get electric this that and everything else from renewables, or will they remain undeveloped?
AJJewsbury:
Empirical evidence is always going to difficult … as we don't have any spare planet Earths to experiment with. By the time we find out with absolute certainty what the result is, it will be far too late to change anything. In terms of survival, there's a lot to be said for the precautionary principle.
Granted we could never do a randomised controlled trial using several Earths, but it is difficult to do a longitudinal study - the climate was changing long before the industrial revolution, and indeed before humans. So were sea levels.
What seems to be censored, if not self-censored, in the debate is the harm (or potential harm) from intervening.
If less developed countries effectively skip the fossil fuel era, will they get electric this that and everything else from renewables, or will they remain undeveloped?
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