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Originally Posted by Kipperriffic
Fine. As long as politician's reaction is not knee-jerk ill informed, whether in favor or against doing something about "climate change". I Agree that it needs to be thought through before any actions are taken.
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Even if we choose "An Inconvenient Truth" as a starting point (which we shouldn't because scientists were raising alarm before this), that movie came out in 2006. We are two months away from 6 years of debate after climate change became a mainstream political issue. The "knee-jerk" window has come and gone.
Considering that policy on issues like these is formed in committees, I really doubt that the people crafting it are doing it without access to information, so I don't know why they would be misinformed.
Frankly, as soon as enough people come to terms with the fact that human caused carbon emissions are causing the climate to change, the only reasonable response will be government regulation. Self-regulation is what is happening right now and it's not working.