One Engineer’s Perspective on Global Warming

Engineering.com ^ | 8/12/2014 | David Simpson

[tbw2]

Bjorn Lomburg, author of the “Skeptical Environmentalist”, has an excellent TED talk about cost versus priorities. For the 100 billion or so of mitigating CO2 a fraction, we could vaccinate everyone, cure worms and give out vitamins to massively improve health and end night blindness plus start on building water and sewer and water infrastructure for a lot of people. Lower the disease and health burden and the poorest areas of the world become much richer, faster.
Or we could make rich countries poorer, keep poor areas poor, all for dubious benefit.
And richer countries are better able to adapt to climate change plus all other disasters.

[AZLiberty]

We will never run out of water if the political will was there to install desalinizing plants all along the coast.

It's political will that's keeping desalination plants from being built. If there were a free market in water, we would have all the water we needed at a price we could afford.

[AFreeBird]

I don’t know if it was in the reticle, or the comments but someone mentioned that PhD’s know a lot about a little.