The NY Times had an article yesterday about a "middle stance" about global warming:

They agree that accumulating carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping smokestack and tailpipe gases probably pose a momentous environmental challenge, but say the appropriate response is more akin to buying fire insurance and installing sprinklers and new wiring in an old, irreplaceable house (the home planet) than to fighting a fire already raging.

Middle Stance Emerges in Debate Over Climate, By ANDREW C. REVKIN, New York Times, January 1, 2007

Hm, this sounds like risk management.