01 Nov '12, 3pm

Michael Bloomberg: The consequences of making a mistake on climate change are severe

There have been very strange weather patterns, very severe storms where they normally have not occurred. That much is recorded. You can look at the film. Whether or not it is part of a long-term climate change or just a random collection of events, only time will tell. The argument that we’re damaging our planet is simply — Let’s assume that we decide we’re not damaging our planet and later on find out that we were. It literally could be too late! And I think if you go and you talk to farmers who have lost all their crops because there have been droughts or places where you’ve had tornadoes or hurricanes or the families of those who were lost here, they would say: hey — there’s something going on. What is clear is the ice cap is melted and that’s very bad because then the heat of the sun gets absorbed in the water which raises the water temperature which hurts the reefs an...

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