Re: UK FUEL

I noticed this wildly OT thread has now passed 200 posting on this group.
Cannae be bothered to read them all... Looks about as boring as the earlier
ones on similar topics. :-)


In article <9oadnclNT6jEM6DVnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@xxxxxxxxx>, Bill Wright
<insertmybusinessname@xxxxxxx> wrote:

"Pyriform" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:V7WdnWVxdrEx4qDVnZ2dnUVZ8sPinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Bill Wright wrote: Sadly, what Lord Lawson of Blaby knows about
climate science could be comfortably scrawled on the back of a
postage stamp with a felt-tip pen.

I fear your mind is so open that all sorts of rubbish is blowing into
it.
No-one could write a book like that without doing a lot of research. In
any case, what he knows about is economics, and really economics is
what this is all about.

Snag being that any decisions about what is 'economically' sensible might
depend on him and/or others actually correctly understanding the climate
and ecology processes their 'solutions' will have to deal with.


Why? Because the logical thing to do is calculate the likely costs of
any global warming and then work out what to do about it. If you do that
you discover that mitigation is a non-starter because it will cost far
more than it will save. Adoptation is the only economically viable
course.

Snag as above. The unstated presumption is that adaptation (which is what I
presume you meant) would be viable in other terms. If it isn't, then it
being judged by Lawson as the best in economic terms might be just a pretty
castle built on sand...

Also, if he is clueless about science and technology, then his ideas about
how much either 'mitigation' or 'adaptation' will cost might be as
substantial as a dream.


The reason mitigation is considered is because it is the obvious
emotional gut reaction to the problem.

Very convenient from the POV of a politician to decide that they need
do nothing, and can leave it all to the 'scientists' and 'engineers'
(about which they know zero) to sort out the messes they make.

Means they can also shift the blame onto the engineers should they
fail to get the economists/polticians out of the hole they insisted
it was OK to keep on digging. All fits the two basic rules of
politicians:

A) Someone (else) should do something.

B) Someone (else) was to blame.

;->


I will now stop wasting my time with the thread and leave it to those who
prefer their opinions to be unfettered by mere understanding of the
relevant scientific of climate processes, or being able to assess the
evidence... But I may pop in again if the OT thread keeps going to the
400+ postings mark, just to stir a bit more. ;-)

Slainte,

Jim

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