[ExI] Curves on a graph (was Re: Richard Lindzen on climatehysteria)

Alfio Puglisi alfio.puglisi at gmail.com
Wed Aug 5 14:00:12 UTC 2009


On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:56 AM, spike<spike66 at att.net> wrote:

> So what of this?  Suppose global climate is changing.  It is a minor
> inconvenience (with some tangeable benefits) if warming, but quickly fatal
> to jillions if cooling.  The risk seems to be on one side.  Could it be that
> our focus on warming theory is all wishful thinking?

We don't have a "warming theory", but climate models. They can go both ways.

> Or we just can't face the risk of cooling?

All current evidence points to warming in a medium timescale (100s of
years), so that's what we are preparing to face. It's that simple.

Alfio



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