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Old 6th August 2006 | 08:14
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DingerX
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Alright, outside of a single MIT Professor, who also consults for oil companies at $2500/day, where's the rest of the "body of scientists"? The supply/demand situation for scientists who deny global warming is so good at the moment, that I'm tempted to become one myself.

But to try to right the derailing of the thread, my point wasn't that "Global Warming" or "Peak Oil" are states of reality that exist. If you're running a company, far more important than the physical reality of these concepts is their relation to your corporation (and Ockham would deny the existence or importance of such a relationship, but that's a different story).
Whether you believe global warming is a problem, when you're making long-term strategy, you have to take into account the forces that shape the market; social and political forces are among the biggest. So, certainly, you'll want to pay Lindzen or one of his students to write up some "objective analyses" that you can then pump through the news outlets. But you'll also need to take into account the very real possibility that high fuel prices, low fuel availability and government restrictions on hydrocarbons are going to change the face of air travel.

To put it another way, the existence of people like Lindzen is proof of what I'm saying: in this case, the environment doesn't matter, but rather the reaction of the world's regulating bodies to it.

Or you can reason that you'll be on the other side of those thunderheads in 2 minutes.
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