Comments on: Everything you could possibly want to know about carbon — tonight on Colbert

By: paulm

paulm — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:21:33 +0000

Heres a good one…

Population Policy Needed In Order To Combat Climate Change, Experts Argue

By: john

john — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:38:21 +0000

What a great concept for a book — an element, and one as fascinating as carbon!

Poor Carl — he was certainly filleted and fried by Colbert. How do you prepare for someone so good at irony, and in a society that seems immune to irony, and impervious to subtlety is Colbert’s real point lost?

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:23:31 +0000

John — I do not believe it is possible to “beat” Colbert. He is funnier and faster than all of his guests. Plus, he has already laid out his plan of attack. I think the best that one could do is to accept everything he says and try to turn it back on him. But you might as well forget pushing their own message.

By: Mark Shapiro

Mark Shapiro — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:41:08 +0000

OT, but Paul Krugman has a must-read at
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/economics-of-catastrophe/
about a paper by economist Marty Weitzman
www.nber.org/~confer/2008/si2008/EEE/weitzman.pdf

It’s good that the MSM are looking more closely at the risks, but Krugman (and Weitzman) need help: they think that a 20 deg C rise would be a catastrophe!
(And that 2x CO2 is inevitable). Catastrophe starts way before 20 deg C.

By: Ronald

Ronald — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:17:54 +0000

At least he will be on the only hard news channel left of TV.

By: paulm

paulm — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:03:31 +0000

Mark Shapiro, good link. Yes, it is sad that Krugman with all the research he must have performed is quoting a figure like 20 deg! You can see why the public does not have a clue whats in store.

I can not understand how any serious risk analysis performed on climate change impacts does not indicate alarming results! Surely they must have been done before by capable professionals, why have they not had any impact on our politics (and media).

We are surely still a very shallow species….

The insurance industry is now sitting up and acting, but that took them awhile.

By: David B. Benson

David B. Benson — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:11:38 +0000

Somewhat off-topic, but I thought folks here ought to know.

“China’s Power Crisis Deepens as Coal Supply Dwindles (Update1)”

http://www.bloomberg.com/ apps/ news?pid=20601080&sid=agAgRllvyODg&refer=asia

By: Dano

Dano — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:52:08 +0000

I thought Eric held his own quite well.

Best,

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