09 Oct '12, 7pm

Bill McKibben nails it on Bill Maher show — plus Tuesday-afternoon quarterbacking

Will is right — we don’t know what the world will look like in 100 years. But that doesn’t mean what he thinks it means. Right now, all our best science agrees on a few broad things: It’s going to get hotter, that heat is going to mess with natural systems, and the effects on us humans, especially the poorest and most vulnerable humans, will be awful. We have more than enough information to know that there’s a serious threat and that we need to do something about it. But when it comes to predicting, say, specific levels of precipitation in Iowa, we’re still stuck with a wide range of possibilities. We’re pretty sure precipitation patterns will substantially change, what with all this new energy being trapped in the atmosphere. But can we say exactly how often it will rain in Iowa in 2100? No. What Will doesn’t seem to understand is that this kind of uncertainty isn’t a rea...

Full article: http://grist.org/climate-energy/bill-mckibben-nails-it-on...

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