drkohler on 19 January 2016
| sc94597 said: Runaway greenhouse effect (and it ilk) are scare tactics. The probability for such models to come fruition are similar to winning the recent power-ball that was in the news for a week or so, very little. |
I always chuckle reading one those completely fallacious comparisons.
Think about the following:
a) The powerball lottery WAS WON, by apparently at least three people. So the lottery was won with 100% probability.
b) Only a small fraction of the earth's population actually played the lottery. Compare that to the climate lottery, where the whole population plays.
If you are the (most likely republican party) American and think nothing about climate chance, go ask the people on all those islands (like Smith Island, for example) in the Chesapeake Bay. They have a different opinion. It's just a few steps away from Washington DC..
