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Originally Posted by Spadplanter
Spud, Spad, whatever. I've been called a lot worse by a lot better people than Daisy. As long as she's quit beating kids, I'm OK.
Something I've never seen is a definition of what the climate SHOULD be. All areas have been everything from tropical to arctic at some time. Please GW advocates, tell me what the proper climate is. All I see is the same old "Change is bad, so give me your money, and I'll make it all better." The climate is ALWAYS changing. As once again, if the weather guessers can't get tomorrow right, you want me to believe them about the coming DECADES???
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Most of the institutions, infrastructure and industries that are in place are there to deal with the current situation in place. This means that even if there are insignificant changes in sea levels and weather volatility there and people on average are not subject to worse conditions then there would still be considerable adjustment costs.
The response to the second statement is that they are two different things. Climate modelers addressing global warming are not looking for the temperature in Paris on December 23, 2030. They are looking for the average global temperature in 2030 or perhaps the average temperature over that decade. Further analysis might look at the effect on individual regions but they will be large. Suitable aggregation and abstraction from details makes the problems quite different.