Re: [asa] Creation Care

On 1/22/07, David Opderbeck <dopderbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is the kind of articles that are always in the premier journals.
> When you review the literature as Randy and I have you do not find the
> apocolyptic predictions which could not survive peer review but the
> more moderate defensible positions like above. BTW, the modest
> increases such as above IS the consensus.
>
> Thank you Rich, Pim and Randy for helping clarify these things for me. Now,
> if modest increase scenarios are the consensus, would we agree that alarmist
> popularizers such as Al Gore are misrepresenting the science and disserving
> the public? Does the climate science community welcome Gore et al. or run
> the other way?

This is where there is not a consensus. Some like the scientists who
run the Real Climate blog see Gore as mostly accurate and certainly
more accurate than the deniers. Other like the "heretics" cited in the
NY Times you quoted believe that Gore's overheated rhetoric is
unhelpful. I tend to side with the latter.

You have raised a valid point in that none of the mitigation
strategies have zero cost and thus should be evaluated as such. This
is where the ASA (and Evangelical Environmentalists in general) have
the greatest value in that we can possibly be more effective at
balancing the cost of the problem vs. the cost of the "solution"
focusing on how this would effect the world's poor. The scientists
have spoken. Now it is the time for the engineers to speak. This is
already happening. The 21st Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain
section of the ASA has invited two distinguished engineering
professors, Dr. Bernard Amadei and Dr. Walter L. Bradley, to discuss
solar/wind/biomass energy technologies, energy conservation, clean
water and microenterprise for developing countries. The title of the
meeting is "Science and Technology with a Human Face".

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Received on Mon Jan 22 09:34:41 2007