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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
I think the polarization on the issue has more to do with money, then conficting scientific views. The people watching their wallets want to believe that nothing is wrong, while the people watching the environment tell us that something is wrong. personally, I tend to believe the experts.
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The thing that most eco-extremists don't get is that to get anything done you have to arrive at a consensus with the people who have the fat wallets.
The people opposing Kyoto and other climate change regulation don't oppose the sciece of climate change. Guys like Bjorn Lomberg believe climate change is occuring. The question that is not being answered well by science is to what degree are humans the cause and how great the effects of climage are going to be. Science sadly has no clue, the models used to predict temperature change are hugely inaccurate.
Effective change will be engineered not by big governmetn regulation but by reasonable NGOs (ie. Not Greenpeace), business, and the free market.
The role government has to play is to start subsidizing the use of green technology and the development of green technology.