http://scienceprogress.org/2008/04/the-readiness-is-all/ Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:59:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://scienceprogress.org/2008/04/the-readiness-is-all/comment-page-1/#comment-1607 Erin Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:29:27 +0000 http://www.scienceprogress.org/2008/04/the-readiness-is-all/#comment-1607 I'd like to challenge you - it's all well to say we need to do this and need to do that, but how do you propose anything actually gets done? How are you convincing policymakers that A is the right course to take over B (or A or B over C which is the status quo - nothing)? Those are the questions we need to be thinking about. Everyone knows we need to prepare for global warming. Lots of organizations have interesting approaches. Which one is right? Here's one interesting approach: http://www.iisis.pitt.edu/. I’d like to challenge you – it’s all well to say we need to do this and need to do that, but how do you propose anything actually gets done? How are you convincing policymakers that A is the right course to take over B (or A or B over C which is the status quo – nothing)? Those are the questions we need to be thinking about. Everyone knows we need to prepare for global warming. Lots of organizations have interesting approaches. Which one is right? Here’s one interesting approach: http://www.iisis.pitt.edu/.

]]> http://scienceprogress.org/2008/04/the-readiness-is-all/comment-page-1/#comment-1602 Philip H. Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:36:10 +0000 http://www.scienceprogress.org/2008/04/the-readiness-is-all/#comment-1602 Chris, Couldn't agree with you more. The stories if what New Olreans' railroads had to do to get working again after KAtrina haven't ever been told, but they make for stark reminders of how hard it will be to respond to climate change if we don't start now. What I always find interesting about some of the deniers is that they yammer on and on about how terrible stopping climate change will be for the economy, and how we can never make the economic changes required unless we all accept a significantly reduced standard of living. I always wonder how our standard of living will remain high if we do nothing. Chris,
Couldn’t agree with you more. The stories if what New Olreans’ railroads had to do to get working again after KAtrina haven’t ever been told, but they make for stark reminders of how hard it will be to respond to climate change if we don’t start now. What I always find interesting about some of the deniers is that they yammer on and on about how terrible stopping climate change will be for the economy, and how we can never make the economic changes required unless we all accept a significantly reduced standard of living. I always wonder how our standard of living will remain high if we do nothing.

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