Tue
Jan
27
2009
Climate change is essentially irreversible ;)
Sadly I visited Slashdot and followed a link to a NPR article concerning Climate Change (the crisis formally known as Global Warming). Yes, I knew better.
The last paragraph demonstrates a complete departure from logic, or an exercise in Torus Logic ™. Torus Logic ™ is a close relative of Circular Logic but comes even less close to reason.
The paragraph reads:
“I guess if it’s irreversible, to me it seems all the more reason you might want to do something about it,” she says. “Because committing to something that you can’t back out of seems to me like a step that you’d want to take even more carefully than something you thought you could reverse.”
This agonizingly pitiful argument for spending billions and billions of dollars is attributed to one Dr. Susan Solomon who, predictably, has much to gain by claiming there is a problem and would be homeless if there were none.
Please note the caption of the tragic photo of Lake Mead’s horrifically low waterline, a waterline that is at “its lowest level since the 1960s.” What climate crisis did we earthlings avert in the 60’s? How did we avert the crisis in the 60’s without spending billions of dollars?
Knock these idiots out, they don’t deserve the mercy shown a rabid dog.
