You actually have something there...but you have to be able to think. I was speculating on how much money and lives have been lost due to the alarmist strategy. I can handle the direct loss but not the indirect. I would bet expenditures for study as well as the carbon footprint, far exceed any relative gain. So that would be a negative factor, every thing has an input output value, or at least a feasible ratio to gain:loss. I also wonder about how much money has been diverted away from other studies, such as aids, poverty, homeless, single mothers, cancer, ...in other words real studies not fictitious. The ideology that climate is a catchall remains stupid beyond recognition, pumping the bucks into something that has no beneficial outcome...just more studies. H..ll the alarmist need to get off their duffs and do something that has value.