http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-adapt26mar26,0,4227673.story

Some believe that the money being directed toward reversing climate change would be better off in a 'treat the symptoms' approach to mitigating the its impacts...

Instead of spending trillions of dollars to stabilize carbon dioxide levels across the planet -- an enormously complex and expensive proposition -- the world could work on reducing hunger, storm damage and disease now, thereby neutralizing some of the most feared future problems of global warming.

Hans von Storch, director of the Institute of Coastal Research in Germany, said that the world's problems were already so big that the added burdens caused by rising temperatures would be relatively small. It would be like going 160 kilometers per hour on the autobahn when "going 150 . . . is already dangerous," he said.

LA Times; March 26, 2008

Submitted by J. Andrews