Re: Economist Bjorn Lomborg: Global warming is not a priority

Learn to Refute the Copenhagen Consensus. See why global warming will make all of the other problems worse.

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[anoniab]

I trust you are not aware that there are plenty of mosquitos in Alaska that go after the reindeer herds in the fall and that they have had malaria in Siberia and the US before?

[janegirlcqs]

Intriguing point, but do you know that mosquitoes tend to die off in the winter?

[Alephantiasis]

You did't refute anything.

First : you neglect the fact that the resolution of some problems (in fact, most problems) will have an effect on global warming. Education, for instance.

Secondly : Adding climate change to you list of "affected by global warming" is nothing but fallacy. You can't pretend that a problem has an effect upon itself. You should avoid self-reference. Already your lists are quantitatively nearly the same 3/4

[janegirlcqs]

Putting climate change is over the top and it's supposed to be. How much more obvious can it get than a tautology?

[janegirlcqs]

I think you're missing what I'm saying. Global warming is a big threat and malaria is one of the things it will make worse.

Lomborg wants to treat symptoms, but skip the disease. I say we need to work on the disaese if we want to get symptoms under control.

[janegirlcqs]

Tell me you did not use the words easily controlled and DDT in the same sentence.

[anoniab]

Mosquito borne diseases can be easily controlled with DDT; Cholera is due to poor sanitation. There has not been an increase in hurricanes. There has not been an increase in drought either. Warmer temps are likely to add more water to the pricipitation cycle (cold air does not hold as much humidity)

[Animalll2003lll]

malaria (and many other new diseases) is going to reach northern regions. wars, hunger major migrations, etc. glob warm and oil shortages are indeed real threats if they happen. as I said under lomborg's talk, we better save the titanic than give poor passengers better seats. the solution is to move away from oil--everyone knows that. the problem is we don't have any immediate incentives to do that. And that's the problem people don't understand.

[Animalll2003lll]

hey dude, you had 50 years to solve that problem. now it's time so save the spaceship. global warming and oil shortages are going to affect us much more that malaria. in fact malaria and many other new diseases are going to reach northern regions. major migrations, wars etc. people dying in hunger. I don't want to sound apocalyptic here but global warm+oil shortages is a big threat. as I said elsewhere we better save the titanic than give poor passengers better seats. need to move away from oil.

[benande]

I won't see anything unless you help me out.

You stated that I should concede that no one really knows the cost of Kyoto. At the same time you are implying the costs right (here and)now are high if we don't do anything.

You should be willing to provide those figures if you're going to make that point.

What do you believe are the correct figures?

How do you think they'd change if Kyoto were implemented?

[janegirlcqs]

Add the number of Malaria deaths, Cholera deaths, Lyme disease deaths, heat stroke deaths, drought deaths, , and hurricane deaths. You will start to see what we are facing.