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re: Why do you need an exact number to start to worry?
gbaikie — (archived)

"You won't get one from a model.

As an example, polling never gives you an exact prediction. But polls are still extremely useful. Criminal profiling never tells you who-dun-it and sometimes is dead wrong. But it often leads to caught criminals. Etc. "

But governments [including the US] is spending billions of dollars based on these models- and this isn't enough, trillions are apparently what is needed, for results that can't even be quantified.

And as it happens there *are* real worries which are out there which are more immediate and quantifiable.

Do you even have a rough idea of how much this has cost the world to date? Do you know anyone who does?
Could it bother you that you might not know?

Keep in mind, no measurable results have happened as result of money spend so far, few of the countries have come close to reaching their targets. And there is still no predictable result if we times it by 10 or 100 what we are currently spending per year.

The only real significant effect you could hope to have on CO2 reduction is nuclear power.

No one on this board disagree with this.
No one knowledgeable and rational disagrees with this.
It's not vaguely arguable.

But of course let instead spend on ethanol, wind mills, and whatever else can spun as a solution.

And why would *anyone* even want mention nuclear power- isn't sort of unPCish?

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