The noise, the sturm und drang over whether or not global warming really exists manages to cover up the basic fact that it really doesn’t matter. We can’t afford not to act.
And true to the “what do you know, what can you prove” method so vividly brought to us by Randy Shilts in And the Band Played On, the video below gives a compelling, purely rational explanation for why it doesn’t matter what we can prove. The only thing he leaves out is the fact that in any response to global warming we control the pace and degree to which we respond which, I think, mitigates his Column A worst case scenario quite a bit. Total running time: 09:33