Excellent Peer Paper

[Rick Maltese]

I strongly recommend this to read. Covers important issues not often discussed. Like health effects of climate change and dealing with negativity and how to overcome fatalist mentality.

"Global health and climate change: moving from denial and catastrophic fatalism to positive action"
BY ANTHONY COSTELLO, MARK MASLIN, HUGH MONTGOMERY,
ANNE M. JOHNSON AND PAUL EKINS


rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1942/1866.full.pdf+html


Also see my post on Deregulate the Atom
deregulatetheatom.com/2011/06/moving-from-denial-and-catastrophic-fatalism-to-positive-action/

[anonposter]

Never mind that the health consequences will affect countries other than the ones doing the emitting the worst (those in the first world will just buy more air conditioners).

I'm afraid the health argument isn't the magic one that'll get action to actually be taken (as opposed to the renewable tokenism that currently infests solutions to global warming).

[Rick Maltese]

I think the way it will work, if at all, is that a hap hazard random process of valid arguments will eventually win over enough people to convince their governments to change the course of action.

Yes knowing renewable is not good enough unless nuclear energy becomes the dominant method of energy production is a good message to send out there.

[anonposter]

There are times when I think we'll have to actually run out of fossil fuels before we actually switch to nuclear (though if we have to wait that long we'll end up with 1000 ppm CO₂).

It isn't so much winning people over to acceptance of global warming we need, but acceptance of nuclear power which will matter as trying to solve global warming without nuclear power is futile.