Climate Policy

[--Pete]

Hi,

And it is a pity the discussion goes this way again.

True. But that is because all that can rationally be said has been said. There are observations, there is data, and that is pretty much indisputable (although some of the data reduction methods are slightly controversial). There are models, and they are more controversial, leading to conclusions that are more controversial still.

The issues cross multiple disciplines. The models are far from first principles. And little or none of it can be tested in the lab. We'll only know the answers in a century, maybe a millennium. Right now, on both sides, it is more a matter of belief than of knowledge -- and religious wars are often the most bloody.

--Pete