[LINK] Pascal's Wager applied to GLobal CLimate Change

[Rick Welykochy]

Kim Holburn wrote:

> 2) The other thing about the costs of responding to global warming is 
> that the main effects, especially initially, would fall onto the big 
> energy companies. ie people might use less fossil fuel. While big energy 
> might not in the long run lose out, they would certainly have to change 
> a lot of things about the way they do business and in the short term 
> their profit might just fall. This is why they are so resistant to the 
> idea of global warming/climate change.

Indeedy .... as Al Gore's research indicates (both in An Uncomfortable Truth
the movie, and The Assault on Reason, the book) there has been a concerted
effort made by vested interests to discredit global warming theories and
cause confusion in the minds of the public. This disinformation campaign
is backed 100% by the Bush administration. Research has shown that there
is practically ZERO support from the scientific community for the dissenting
view on climate change, and yet because of the disinformation campaign,
some 50 to 60% of the public has doubts (had doubts in 2004) in their minds.

This is obviously changing now, much to the chagrin of the global dealers
in fossil fuel based energy supplies. They will cling on to their profit-
making ventures until the last drop is squeezed out of the rock. As well,
they will continue to support the disinformation campaign with big $$$.


cheers
rickw




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