As soon as U.S. president gets serious on global warming, Europe says it was kidding all along

It’s another reason I voted for Barack Obama.

With lightning speed, we’re smoking out the cynics and posers!

It has to be sobering to discover the Europeans weren't angry with President Bush after all for failing to reverse the Senate's 1997 vote, 95-0, against the Kyoto accords. They were relieved to have a realist reining in on some of the more ridiculous responses to increasing CO2.

Now the Europeans are moving toward the most practical response, which is to build more CO2-free nuclear power plants.

Frank Warner

Comments

[Neo]

And that’s why I’m so sceptical of these models, which have nothing to do with science or empiricism but are about torturing the data till it finally confesses.

[Frank Warner]

That's a good way to describe it.

Are we warming dangerously? If so, why aren't we building nuclear power plants a whole lot faster?

[Rachid]

Human being is destroying himself by his own hands: http://inspirationwriting.blogspot.com/2009/07/scientific-studies-showed-where-there.html

[jj mollo]

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything. ~Gregg Easterbrook ... fyi

Nobody wants to do anything about it, and democracies are depressingly ineffective. Balancing so many interests often gives the appearance of waffling and insincerity, more to the point, uncertainty. Nevertheless, we have to keep working with Europe and any other countries that are willing to pursue the topic, for several reasons. 1) If we eventually develop some effective cures for the problems, we don't want anyone claiming they were left out of the loop. 2) In the event of a real crisis, it'll be nice to have the political infrastructure in place so that we won't have to start from scratch.

Neo's link is from a guy that claims that our impending climate disruption is nothing new, and besides, species have gone extinct before. It provides a certain perspective to look at it that way, for sure. Maybe you think that it says we shouldn't worry about it. The Earth will do as it wishes. To me it justifies all the alarmism. The supposed Chinese curse says, "May you live in interesting times." Personally, I think we should make it a point to keep things boring.