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Originally Posted by SimonScans
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You will say "I don't trust the measurements". Okay, so get your side to analyze the measuring protocols and set up new measuring stations around the planet and test the measurements. And start now from year zero with all tAnd start now from year zero with all those stations when plenty already exist? Why can't we share "yours" - you know, the ones we buy via our taxes? |
well, if your side pulls it together to conduct investigations, one of the things that I hope comes from it is the development of a new protocol that makes it possble for raw data from as many measureing stations as america controls to be transparently available.
that will make the science stronger.
but, we also need to place hundreds of thousands of new measuring stations around the planet, all connected to the net and generating open source data. we should do it fast, and pay for it without complaining.
because this is a pascal's wager kind of problem. if you are right, and a catastrophe is not happening, a billion or 5 or 50 spent on science is just a tiny fraction of GDP, and having a well measured planet will be useful info for agriculture and industry. so, there's no real loss.
but if a catastrophe is going to happen, the sooner we know, the better, and the better information we have, the more likley we are to be ahead of it when it happens.
besides, everything we would have to do to adapt to severe global warming we are going to be forced to do by the coming decades of expensive and then very expensive oil anyway.