Global warming: Just deal with it, some scientists say

See the whole Los Angeles Times story here.

Excerpt:

Exhibit A is hurricanes.

The spate of recent storms, particularly Hurricane Katrina in 2005, has come to be seen as a harbinger of a warmer world -- a view popularized by Gore's 2006 documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth."

Pielke's new analysis considered 207 hurricanes that hit the United States between 1900 and 2005. He looked at their strength and course and then overlaid them on a modern map that included all development over the years.

He found that the most devastating storm, had it occurred today, would be the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, popularly known as the Big Blow. Its path through the now heavily developed southern tip of Florida would have caused $157 billion in damage, followed by Katrina, whose toll was $81 billion. Six of the top 10 most damaging storms occurred before 1945.
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Pielke says that even if his critics are right, it is becoming clear that the world lacks the political will to enact global emissions cuts.

China's growing emissions are on pace to double those of the United States in a decade, and the country shows little interest in slowing down. The United States has refused to cap its emissions, and much of Europe is failing to satisfy even the modest terms of the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 landmark treaty on greenhouse gases.

"I would characterize us as realists," Pielke said. "Realists on what is politically possible."

Commenting on this story, Marc Morano wrote:

Note: this is significant. The mainstream media (LA Times) now realizes there is no 'consensus' and that so called 'solutions' to global warming are purely symbolic and unworkable. So they are now featuring the 'non-skeptic heretic club.' The media is beginning to understand and promote the Lomborg warming is happening, but not a crisis position.