Is doing the wrong thing to correct global warming better or worse than doing nothing?

Question

Is doing the wrong thing to correct global warming better or worse than doing nothing?

Answer 1

It is much, much, better.

Answer 2

Here's what doing nothing will cause:

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNe...

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM6avr07.pdf

It's pretty bad.  Rich countries economies devastated by the need to move people from coastal areas and replace things flooded, and to repair damage to agriculture.  People dying of starvation in poor countries.  So I think we should do something.

By the way the movie recommended above is trash.

" A Channel 4 documentary claimed that climate change was a conspiratorial lie. But an analysis of the evidence it used shows the film was riddled with distortions and errors."

http://news.independent.co.uk/environmen...

Even Channel 4 doesn't believe that nonsense is correct.   If you go to their website, on the page for the film are links to factual global warming sites.  You can "Ask an Expert" and your question goes to a respected mainstream scientist who says man is mostly responsible for global warming.

Answer 3

It is worse if the wrong thing cost billions of dollars and peoples jobs.  It is worse if the "problem" is actually a great benefit like increasing growing seasons.  It is worse if the solution works and leads to another ice age.

Answer 4

This doesnt really anser the question but I suggest watching this movie.http://video.google.com/url?docid=449956...

Answer 5

If you turned off the sun, and then found out that Al Gore and crew were lying to make themselves rich, wouldn't you feel silly?

Answer 6

wrong is wrong.  

you know it just like everyone else knows it.

yet people still do evil.

Answer 7

It's better to do the wrong thing as long as it's realized  that it's the wrong thing before it is or become irreversable.

Answer 8

Doing the wrong thing is clearly worse than doing nothing in all cases, not just global warming. If you really don't know what you are doing you could make the problem worse. I mean if there is a ticking bomb and cutting a wire will stop it, but there are two wires and one stops it and one makes it blow up right now, you are WAY better off waiting until the absolute last moment to cut a wire, because maybe before the time runs out you could learn which is the correct wire.