# So who can answer Jerry Pournelle's questions about Global Warming? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 12, 2010, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-can-answer-jerry-pournelles-questions-about-global-warming/556876 "2010-10-12T10:04:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 20
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-can-answer-jerry-pournelles-questions-about-global-warming/556876/20 "2010-10-12T22:01:45Z")
> [@Typo\_Knig](#): > > Didn’t Pournelle want to build Star Wars/SDI as a meteor defense before there was any census of the number or type of earth-crossing asteroids? He’s willing to piss away trillions to no known effect, yet unwilling to accept the demonstrated empirical facts of climate change. :rolleyes: There are no empirical facts to support climate change. It’s a hypothesis that may or may not be true based on computer models that cannot possibly contain all the variables. The only technical solution being pursued is the reduction of carbon dioxide and not technology aimed at lowering atmospheric temperatures. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-can-answer-jerry-pournelles-questions-about-global-warming/556876)._