Help sombody save me! "Dup da da DA!!! ... U.N to the rescue!!!

Consider this list of propositions about climate change by Kevin Williamson of National Review; they are arranged in “ascending order of unlikeliness”:

1. The planet is getting warmer.

2. The planet is getting warmer, and human activity is the reason.

3. The planet is getting warmer, human activity is a main factor, and the consequences will be catastrophic.

4. The planet is getting warmer, human activity is a main factor, the consequences will be catastrophic, and some U.N.-style climate policeman is going to be able to manage a mitigating response.

5. The planet is getting warmer, human activity is a main factor, the consequences will be catastrophic, and some U.N.-style climate policeman is going to be able to manage a mitigating response — in an economically efficient manner.

6. The planet is getting warmer, human activity is a main factor, the consequences will be catastrophic, and some U.N.-style climate policeman is going to be able to manage a mitigating response — in an economically efficient manner that also is consistent with our political liberties and national sovereignties.

consider this: "The international community has very little credibility in dealing with real and present danger — such as Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal and Tehran’s ambition to possess one — and so it seems unlikely that they will be effective in dealing with a less concrete, less immediate, more complex set of challenges, particularly one in which the various members of the international community have different and often conflicting economic incentives."

Read his whole article for the evaluation of each proposition.

Technology + Food = Fear

I don't measure my life in terms of ipods, but by whatever chronological measure you use, this post should certainly cause you to consider your mortality in contrast to the seemingly eternal life span of a McDonalds hamburger.

And no Conor! this does not mean eating Mc Donalds will make you live forever.