<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Tipping points]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by bookerly http://www.grist.org/article/tipping-points/ Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:19:17 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/tipping-points/1 Beware


    The danger of letting people think that they have ten years before "serious efforts need to have started" should be obvious.

    For many people, that means they don't have to "start" to think about the problem for ten years.

    That the process of deciding what to do doesn't need to "start" for ten years.

    That the planning for what to do doesn't need to "start" for ten years.

    Not what I think Dr. Hansen has in mind, but a real danger to beware of in terms of discussion.

patrick

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    The danger of letting people think that they have ten years before "serious efforts need to have started" should be obvious.

    For many people, that means they don't have to "start" to think about the problem for ten years.

    That the process of deciding what to do doesn't need to "start" for ten years.

    That the planning for what to do doesn't need to "start" for ten years.

    Not what I think Dr. Hansen has in mind, but a real danger to beware of in terms of discussion.

patrick

]]> Comment #2 by ffletcher http://www.grist.org/article/tipping-points/ Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:35:01 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/tipping-points/2 Tipping Points May Be Key To Setting Policy

These tipping points may be the key to intelligent policy making regarding reductions in CO2 and other behaviors that drive global warming.

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These tipping points may be the key to intelligent policy making regarding reductions in CO2 and other behaviors that drive global warming.

]]> Comment #3 by caniscandida http://www.grist.org/article/tipping-points/ Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:56:51 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/tipping-points/3 misrepresenting James Hansen

Yes, Patrick, you are quite right.  "We do not really need to start serious efforts for another ten years" is not at all the same as "We need to have begun serious efforts within the next ten years."  To me at least, James Hansen seems to be saying something like the latter statement.  But no doubt his advice is even now being misrepresented to sound like the former.

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Yes, Patrick, you are quite right.  "We do not really need to start serious efforts for another ten years" is not at all the same as "We need to have begun serious efforts within the next ten years."  To me at least, James Hansen seems to be saying something like the latter statement.  But no doubt his advice is even now being misrepresented to sound like the former.

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