Global Warming and Risk Management

Posted on February 2, 2008

Regardless of what you believe about global warming this video will get you to think about the problem (or lack thereof depending on what you believe) from a different angle. In this video you will see a simple risk analysis performed with regards to global warming.

The end result: Even if global warming isn’t actually caused by humans reducing our emissions and such won’t hurt us at all (in fact, it will help us either way). However, if we ignore global warming and take the bet that we aren’t hurting the planet and that the warming is cyclical and down the road it turns out we’re wrong we’ll be in for a world of hurt.

Simple risk analysis says we should take the bet that we’re hurting the planet and lower our footprint because the risk is much lower than any other alternative. Enjoy the video. It really is entertaining and, I think, spot on.