Opera tribute not too inconvenient for Gore

[aphar]

http://music.guardian.co.uk/classical/story/0,,2283007,00.html

The legendary La Scala opera house in Milan has commissioned a full-length work to be based on [Gore's] book, An Inconvenient Truth, and the Oscar-winning documentary of the same title. ... La Scala's artistic director, Stephane Lissner, told a press conference the new opera had been commissioned from an Italian composer, Giorgio Battistelli. He said it would be staged in 2011.

Some people never learn. In 3 years, chances are the main issue will be global cooling, not global warming, so the opera would have to be rewritten...

Comments

[allka.livejournal.com]

Ne, Semka, an article in "Nature" or "Science" beats the hell out of testifying before the Senate, zub dayu. :)

ROI is crucial in figuring out what to do, I agree completely.
Probability - comparable to the probability of asteroid collision?? Man, I hope you are right, but I fear it's more like the probability of colliding with an asteroid that's 20 feet away.
Discounted consequences - don't know the term. But overpopulation is a huge problem that directly feeds into global warming (if we agree that it exists), no?

[aphar.livejournal.com]

Discounted consequences
losing $100 in 10 years is the same as losing $100*exp(-10r) today, where r is the annual risk-free interest rate.

overpopulation is a problem which feeds into everything - war, poverty, hunger, thirst.
it is caused by irresponsibility on an astronomical scale - people who cannot feed their existing children are having more children.