Climate Change Thread

[Seamus Fermanagh]

And the Earth has been much warmer and much colder in the past (check longer timelines). And will be again. Life is resilient and our doomsayers are, in part, trying to stop change when change is inevitable.

This is not to deny the partial (possibly substantial) anthropomorphic character of the current increase vector. But the biggest contributor is CO2 and the biggest source is the billions more humans than have ever existed before along with their desire for electric power and what not. The biggest greenhouse gas is our continuing to exhale -- so how many billions need to be euthanized?

Obviously, you are not suggesting anything so Malthusian/Kevorkianesque, nor do I disagree with measures to curtail emissions. Yet the aggressive track suggested above would involve a world-wide depression of epic proportions and would spark untold wars etc. This means that the aggressive option isn't all the appealing either.

We will have to take measures to adapt for survival in a warmer world -- look forward to Saskatchewan grain farms, larger seawalls, and elites who will still end up with the best beachfront property -- even if it IS the Berkshires.