[extropy-chat] Climate skepticism patterns

[spike]

> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of "Hal Finney"

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> So global warming will be harmful, at least under a current "best guess"
> of 3 degrees C... Hal

These models tend to assume a nearly uniform increase in temperature, but I
am more ambitious than that.  What if we could warm the poles and cool the
tropics.  Would not that be a good thing?  How about making the deserts
wetter and the soggy areas dryer?  What if we had to sacrifice the polar
bears and the penguins to do it?  But if we gave up those two species, and
made new habitat for a hundred new ones, wouldn't that be a good deal?  Or
by expanding current habitats we were to save a hundred existing species?  

spike