If we're already past the tipping point on global warming, as seems likely, maybe it would be prudent to figure out, in some detail, what the effects are going to be, so we can deal with what we can no longer prevent.
Of course this comes under the heading of weather forecasting, a subdiscipline of the art of rhetoric that has somehow gotten labeled as a science. What would it take to forecast with practical accuracy, at the local level, the effects of global climate [...]
Tue, 06 May 2008 20:00:00 +0100
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