barnega wrote:
Both The Gore Film and the BBC film got more right than wrong;


Both had some howlers in them


Upshot is, we have Global Warming; now what to do about it..


Cato responds: The planet has had many episodes of Global
Warming and Global Cooling in the past without any help from us. Earth
has gone though it many, many times. Times so warm that there was no
ice or snow at all. No polar caps or glaciers. The world survived.
Times so cold that ice a mile thick covered the Great Lakes
area in North America. One time the Earth was so cold, some scientists
think it may have bee covered with snow and ice almost to the equator.
The Earth survived.
Our caveman (oops, cave-person) ancestors lived through the
last Ice Age, and they survived. They adapted to the conditions.
If they hadn't, we wouldn't be here.

What to do about it?? Well, Not spend hundreds of billions
or trillions of dollars fighting it. The best that would do is maybe
old the inevitable off for a while longer. In the meantime we will
spend ourselves into the poor house and destroy our economies. Not
worth it in the long run.
So what to do about it?? Accept the reality, prepare for
the change, and adapt to it. Life on this world has two choices.
Adapt or die.
Cato