Fall has come round again and all we here is the screaming of the various sides in the AGW debate about whether a warm/cold/wet/dry winter means their particular view is valid.
Its a bit like listening to the birds shouting at each other about the last berries of summer. And I for one am getting sick of listening to them. Sorry, but the pro-AGW crowd is marginally more irritating than the anti-AGW since they're forever telling us the end is nigh! Or perhaps that's just journalists and opportunistic politicians?
When I was a kid, many falls ago, we had a better way of dealing with this. No ad homs, no divided science. It was called pollution and everyone who was anyone was against it. As a result, cities lost their smog and industry cleaned up its act - or faced the financial penalties of customer ire.
Pollution is still a problem. Whatever the weather/climate is doing, its clear CO2 is rising and that we are contributing to it. If we cut down our contribution, and it falls, well, then it was us. If we cut our contribution and it continues to rise, well at least it isn't us. Chances are there would at least be a slowing in the rise. In the mean time, we should look at all our industrial outputs, from plastic bags to SO2. There is only so much world and I for one would prefer my grandchildren to visit pristine beaches without the currently inevitable detritus of consumerism.
So where do I stand on AGW? I don't really care. I'm happy with democratic capitalism within reason. What I want is good old fashioned sense. Clean up your house!
