Global warming: deal with it
It is not clear he doesn’t believe in AGW but he certainly doesn’t believe in the proposed solutions. He advocates a techno optimist approach. People like myself and JC have been making the same claim.
I want to electrify the world, all energy production via electricity made cleanly. Not because of AGW so much but because ultimately we want lots of energy and it has to be clean and efficient over the long term.
People just don’t want to face up to the inevitable. The 6th mass extinction has already occurred, climate change is already here, the ecology has been irrevocably transformed, carbon reduction strategies have their place but will be to little effect in the long term. Current technologies, politics, and economics cannot provide solutions. Too much wishful thinking. Go for broke or go broke. Get over it.
I like this attitude.
It’s a done deal. Whatever chain reaction we’ve started in the ecosystem, we’ve started it, and like a landslide that has miles to cascade down the mountain, it’s inevitable. All you can do is watch as the destruction unfolds, then deal with the result. We can’t turn back the clock.
We can’t shut down the industrialised world.
We can’t pretend that the discovery of oil hasn’t unleashed forces of industry and commerce that have transformed the surface of the earth.
We can’t hope for a low-carbon society, as this is just a way of wishing for something to be true that isn’t.
The genie can’t be put back in the bottle.
We just have to wait and see what the future holds, and deal with it. Whatever it is.