Here's a comment I just posted in Care2 under the article:
The
question of climate change comes down to probabilities and balancing
risks versus benefits. My understanding of the IPCC predictions is there
is a 2/3 chance that things will get very bad by the end of this
century. The far end of the bell curve is a one-in-six chance of
conditions becoming catastrophic.
The
climate change deniers seem to focus on the near end of the curve, the
one-in-six chance that things won't be too bad after all. A gun with one
empty chamber and five bullets is not very good odds if you're going to
play Russian roulette.
Climate
scientist James Hansen has called for a global carbon tax with the
proceeds to be distributed to everyone (he calls it fee-and-dividend). I
have posted a petition calling for a worldwide referendum on such a
global carbon tax on Care2. You can view it and,hopefully, put your name
to it, at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/286/384/042/petition-for-a-referendum-on-a-global-carbon-tax/
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