The Spectacle Blog
There are two dangers posed by the idea of anthropogenic global warming:
- Government regulation of greenhouse gases, with the greatest current threat posed by EPA’s plans to use the Clean Air Act to limit carbon dioxide emissions
- Environoiac pressure groups such as Ceres who want to limit fossil fuel usage by everyone in the world
Neither is an actual physical threat posed by the fantasy phenomenon itself, but only by those who believe in it, as I explain today at the National Legal and Policy Center blog.
Rich Rostrom| 3.11.11 @ 7:38PM
You left out some dangers.
1) Massive diversion of wealth into "greendoggles" and rent-seeking schemes.
2) Environmentally destructive and irresponsible energy production by desperate countries and regions faced with catastrophic energy shortfalls and no time or money to build clean energy production plant.
3) Global food shortages due to diversion of agricultural capacity to biofuel production.
4) Increasing wealth and leverage for mad and corrupt petrostates.
5) Energy shortfalls which are potentially catastrophic for individual countries, leading to negative-sum fighting over what is left.
"AGW" could bring down civilization.