20 August 2011
John Huntsman Is Smart to Acnowledge Global Warming
The scientific community recognizes that the world's climate had been warming--this cannot be denied by anyone with a smattering of intelligence. Therefore, it is not "crazy" for Huntsman and Romney to accept it as fact. Whether or not human activity is responsible for the current spate of global warming has not been proven. After all, global warming has occurred in the past, long before the industrial revolution. Perhaps the flattulence of the dinosaurs contributed to at least one round of increased greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere.
And that's the reason we ought to be concerned about possible human contributions to global warming today. The world's climate probably inexplicably changes in cycles anyway. The difference is that what happened eons ago is only of historical and scientific interest to us, but what is happening now is partially under our control. Moreover, we have a lot to lose if we don't take reasonable steps to reduce the consequences of human activity that actually or possibly make global warming worse.
It isn't that human progress is responsible for the destructive effects of global warming; it's just dumb to let global warming happen when we have the power to take measures that could reduce the harm it may do to our standards of living.
The scientific community recognizes that the world's climate had been warming--this cannot be denied by anyone with a smattering of intelligence. Therefore, it is not "crazy" for Huntsman and Romney to accept it as fact. Whether or not human activity is responsible for the current spate of global warming has not been proven. After all, global warming has occurred in the past, long before the industrial revolution. Perhaps the flattulence of the dinosaurs contributed to at least one round of increased greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere.
And that's the reason we ought to be concerned about possible human contributions to global warming today. The world's climate probably inexplicably changes in cycles anyway. The difference is that what happened eons ago is only of historical and scientific interest to us, but what is happening now is partially under our control. Moreover, we have a lot to lose if we don't take reasonable steps to reduce the consequences of human activity that actually or possibly make global warming worse.
It isn't that human progress is responsible for the destructive effects of global warming; it's just dumb to let global warming happen when we have the power to take measures that could reduce the harm it may do to our standards of living.
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