Comments on: The Disaster of Climate Tyranny http://www.collide-a-scape.com/2009/03/12/the-disaster-of-climate-tyranny/ where nature and culture meet Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:14:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Eli Rabett http://www.collide-a-scape.com/2009/03/12/the-disaster-of-climate-tyranny/comment-page-1/#comment-181 Eli Rabett Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:19:35 +0000 http://www.collide-a-scape.com/?p=307#comment-181 J. Willard Rabett has sent Eli a set of laws to guide climate change policy makers 1. Adaptation responds to current losses. 2. Mitigation responds to future losses 3. Adaptation plus future costs is more expensive than mitigation, 4. Adaptation without mitigation drives procrastination penalties to infinity. gravityloss has it right, we have to adapt because we have taken no mitigation actions, so we are stuck with it, but we should not forget, nor forgive the people who told us there was no problem, we only have to adapt. J. Willard Rabett has sent Eli a set of laws to guide climate change policy makers

1. Adaptation responds to current losses.
2. Mitigation responds to future losses
3. Adaptation plus future costs is more expensive than mitigation,
4. Adaptation without mitigation drives procrastination penalties to infinity.

gravityloss has it right, we have to adapt because we have taken no mitigation actions, so we are stuck with it, but we should not forget, nor forgive the people who told us there was no problem, we only have to adapt.

]]> By: gravityloss http://www.collide-a-scape.com/2009/03/12/the-disaster-of-climate-tyranny/comment-page-1/#comment-175 gravityloss Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:45:50 +0000 http://www.collide-a-scape.com/?p=307#comment-175 I'll outline a few immediate reasons that pop to mind: 1) Because adaptation is used as motivation to not do anything. That's because of the significant time delay between actions and consequences when humans change the climate. I don't think people are fundamentally against adaptation. Who would be against building a wall if your house is going to be going under water. But using the possibility for adaptation as the motivation to do nothing is not always a good thing. 2) Because different people have to adapt, compared to those who reaped the benefits from burning the fossil fuels. This is a question of responsibility for ones actions, and causing harm to innocent people who have nothing to do with the thing. There are many others, these two just popped to my mind. I’ll outline a few immediate reasons that pop to mind:
1) Because adaptation is used as motivation to not do anything. That’s because of the significant time delay between actions and consequences when humans change the climate. I don’t think people are fundamentally against adaptation. Who would be against building a wall if your house is going to be going under water. But using the possibility for adaptation as the motivation to do nothing is not always a good thing.
2) Because different people have to adapt, compared to those who reaped the benefits from burning the fossil fuels. This is a question of responsibility for ones actions, and causing harm to innocent people who have nothing to do with the thing.
There are many others, these two just popped to my mind.

]]> By: Tom Yulsman http://www.collide-a-scape.com/2009/03/12/the-disaster-of-climate-tyranny/comment-page-1/#comment-161 Tom Yulsman Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:41:30 +0000 http://www.collide-a-scape.com/?p=307#comment-161 I cross-posted this <a href="http://www.cejournal.net/?p=1360" title="at our blog" rel="nofollow">at our blog</a>. And I also provided more commentary about Kathleen Tierney's talk today. See the comments section. I cross-posted this at our blog. And I also provided more commentary about Kathleen Tierney’s talk today. See the comments section.

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