[ExI] Phil Jones acknowledging that climate science isn'tsettled

[Stefano Vaj]

2010/3/2 Christopher Luebcke <cluebcke at yahoo.com>:
> But significant disruptions to ecosystems tend to cause a lot of suffering.
> That's where my concern lies.

Disruption as in...? Reduction in the aggregate mass of living
organisms? Reduction of complexity? Rapid change? Mass extinction of
some species?

Any "historical" global warming-related examples of such disruptions?

And what about the accounting for the suffering obviously involved in
avoiding them, as in, e.g., efforts invested in energy savings rather
than in saving human lives?

Those are not rhetorical questions, and beg serious answers. While I
do my best to keep an open mind on the issue, when I try to educate
myself on such issues I usually get my fair rate of doom mongering and
precautionary principle preaches.

But yes, it would be a pity to see Venise go eventually under water...

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Stefano Vaj