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

[Alastair Rankine]

My friend Julian took this video apart pretty comprehensively a few  
months ago:

http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2007/10/12/climate-change- 
debate-and-false-dilemmas/

And, much as I hate to disagree with someone wearing a League of  
Awesomeness t-shirt, I think Julian is right and this guy's reasoning  
is faulty.


On 18/01/2008, at 3:26 PM, Rick Welykochy wrote:

> Linkers,
>
> I started looking around the interesting website posted easlier
> by Mr Scheid (regarding Yellow Pages), and found this little gem.
>
> <http://www.kn.com.au/sustainability/2007/12/pascals-wager.html>
>
> The video clip sums up quite nicely the consequences of
> doing nothing about GCC (and being wrong) vs doing something
> perhaps costly (and being wrong).
>
> How does this apply to Link? Reasoned analysis like this is
> easily disseminated now like never before. Public opinion can
> be better informed and force policy changes like never before.
>
>
> cheers
> rickw
>
>
>
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