Re: What's the downside of global warming?
Well, you may not believe human activity is contributing to it, but if you were among the scientific community, you would be in the minority.<br /><br />And the dramatic effects of ice caps melting and sea levels rising may or may not be accurate, but environmental science is very complex, and not necessarily as dramatic as all that.<br /><br />I recall a number of years ago attending a conference on pacific salmon where our Washington Senator Slade Gorton (R) where he jokingly but accurately said that congress needed to legislate a 2 degree drop in Ocean temperature to get the salmon runs back. Unfortunately, he was right about the cure. There are lots of potential subtle effects like this, including climate change, severity of storms, insects and disease, and who knows what else.<br /><br />This is serious, and to the extent we can help reverse the trend, we should try, at least.<br /><br />And don't tell me it would be bad for the economy. If we spearheaded a global effort to affect change, imagine the potential benefits to American engineering firms and pollution control equipment manufacturing, not to mention the world wide prestige involve in trying to help the world's resources as opposed to always trying to exploit them.
