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Originally Posted by Bossman
Actual he does not say anything new... he has never denied that the climate is changing.
His argument is that its too costly to do anything about it with current technologies... that for every $1 spend it will mean 3 cent reduction in climate change. So instead he wants big funding for research ($100 billion per year), which in time will bring $8 reduction for every $1 used.
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I always thought that was a reasonable argument - altho, that argument itself has to be examined closely for errors.
In any case, focusing on actions that have the maximum desired effect at the most reasonable cost does make sense.
However, right now we aren't in a position to do much of anything, we are in political and economic paralysis.
China and other competitor economies will seize the initiative and become the world leaders in manufacturing the new technologies, while we wait.
Arguably we don't have the manufacturing capacity left to do anything important anyway.