Arnold Kling has taken a look a global warming and on reasonable responses. Among other things, he is exploring an interesting parallel between climate models and macroeconometric models.
Read the whole thing. His conclusion:
The choice that we face on global warming is not "either-or." It is not, "either we believe in global warming and rescue the planet or we all die." It is a largely a choice between how much action we do pro-actively now and how much we do in response to climate change in forthcoming decades.I think that there is time to have a reasonable discussion and to make rational decisions. If that's the way people want to approach the issue, that is.
It is nice seeing someone step back and try to really understand the situation and find workable policies. I run into all too many people who have a "with us or against us" approach, who seem to care far more about political brawls than about understanding the situation and looking for answers.