The double-edged sword of the Internet, used to spread bull about global warming, is also being used to spread the truth about the bull. The same political social bent in thinking which has gotten so far by encouraging cynical thought, has also encouraged the cynical thought questioning global warming.
It's a beautiful thing.
If I were to choose a real thing to worry about for the future, it would be island mount collapses like La Palma or Hawaii and the tsunami they could generate, or maybe the super caldera under Yellowstone, and then brainstorm countermeasures. Of course, those don't readily offer easy inroads by certain people to curtail liberties, increase their power, etc. They do empower us inventor types and maybe that's why we're drawn to do what we do. |