What’s the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate
What’s the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate – Review
Craven provides (and exhaustively verbalized in his videos) completely reasoned explanations for why global warming (GW) is not contested by a rational and fully informed person. Who do you believe? Craven provides a very simple hierarchy denoting credentialed individuals and organizations. You should believe those sources highest on the hierarchy. This is not rocket science. It is a easy matter of independently discovering who knows the most – and knows it at the genuine levels. Those highest on the hierarchy are also the least likely to commit confirmation bias – a topic Craven explains clearly. What is the science? Here again, Craven – a science teacher – presents an clearly understood, and correct, impression of CO2 emissions and sequestration. You can delve further into the science if you like, but Craven’s overview meets the point. While some may say he oversimplifies, he really doesn’t. It is also important to note that Carl Sagan was frequently criticized for oversimplification – but he didn’t either. When a scientist presents a topic to the general public, some simplification is necessary. Are people really causing total change? Unfortunately, yes indeed. While CO2 is spontaneously generated and widely consumed, nature’s wonderful balancing act is slightly tilted by our resurrection of millions of years of carbon from beneath the finely ground. Another outstanding book on this topic is David MacKay’s “Sustainable Energy – without the warm air” Get both books. Because there are some very self-centered groups out there that are trying to say GW is a hoax, it is important that we all learn enough to recognize truth in this significant time. Perhaps one of the most pleasant characteristics of Craven’s work is that he always hopes he is wrong. He searches for reasons not to believe what he understands. That’s what scientists are originally supposed to do. But it is a fact that the most famous scientists, and their organizations, agree with Craven’s conclusions.