You just have to laugh. After being taken to task yesterday on the removal of IPCC language that was done purely to bolster his own lame argument about how preventing global warming is the “cheap” option, Dana Nuccitelli responds to the challenge from Dr. Richard Tol in comments at the Guardian article with the patented Dana-dodge™. As Tol notes,
Dana does not quite know how to handle this http://t.co/XfRmZhiY2X
— Richard Tol (@RichardTol) April 23, 2014
Here is how Dana handles Tol’s charge about removal of the IPCC language, it’s hilarious!
Heh.
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“To get to our current food supply (is we were in a 280 PPM world) we would likely need about15% more land, and more water. If we instantly dropped to 280 ppm , WWIII would break out within months. Is this in the economic calculations?.”
This.
I had a discussion with a “precautionary principle” warmy. I asked “if God handed you the magic CO2 button to return us to 280ppm for no charge, would you push it?” He said “yes, absolutely.” I said “congratulations – crop yields have now fallen 18% and a billion people just died.”
Any possible externalities from temps rising to the level of he very nice places to my north during my grandkids’ lives are swamped by the elephant: crop yields. And if we stop emitting, once the oceans quickly absorb excess CO2 that will happen. 100 Holocausts.
One pleasing aspect of this entertaining thread is that Richerd Tol has made a stand for the use of the Anglo-Saxon-Batavian ‘arse’, rather than the bestial ‘ass’ so beloved of the Cousins. Well done sir!