Why do the worlds leading experts say solving Global Warming is such a low priority? Why did the Copenhagen Consensus, a group of 36 world-leading experts and scientists including four Nobel Prize winners, conclude that, among 17 challenges facing the world, efforts to stop global warming should receive the lowest priority?
http://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/Defau...

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6 months ago

Answers that use the %26quot;they%26#039;re just economists%26quot; theme can be dismissed.
They take the actual scientific reports from a variety of places (including the IPCC report on GW), and take the costs and benefits in those reports to make their conclusion.
They don%26#039;t make their own scientific conclusions.
So if you believe the IPCC report, you have to believe the Copenhagen Consensus.

6 months ago

Bob below is dead wrong. There is intense scientific debate on whether humans are the principal cause of GW:
It%26#039;s basically the 52 scientists of the IPCC vs the rest of the world such as these scientists:
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?F...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sci...