[PLOlover]

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Who will decide what risks are worth the investment and how much? George Bush thought Iraq was a risk and could cost us as much as $2 trillion. What about the risk of a meteor hitting us? There are lots of risks, probabilities and costs. You act like global warming is 100% risk (the earth has warmed before and humans adapted) and we have unlimited resources that will 100% solve the problem. The real world does not work this way.

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your missing the point. they already are discussing shifting resources via taxation and regulation because of so called man made global warming. but their solution is not to solve the problem, but to get the masses to pay higher taxes and to have a lower standard of living.

basically, it's like if a city has a water treatment plant that is getting old and doesn't work well enough so the citys solution is to raise taxes and pass laws to regulate water usage that will result in even higher prices, and then claim the problem is solved as long as everyone keeps using less and less water. and then if anyone says, hey, why not build a new water treatment plant, everyone tells him he's crazy, it's inefficient use of resources, government can't do anything, etc.

actually the analogy is that the water treatment plant is fine but the city claims it's on the brink of failure and so they must raise taxes ...