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This really misses the mark for me, as well. There was also absolutely no mention of any thought of climate change, besides a flippant, throwaway passage about
by pmiller2 6y ago
This really misses the mark for me, as well.
There was also absolutely no mention of any thought of climate change, besides a flippant, throwaway passage about how "with global warming and ozone depletion, we'll all either die of cancer or live in Waterworld." Well, that, and a dash of "oh, biotech will save us!"'
We have largely done nothing to reverse or slow the trajectory toward climate disaster we were on in 1997, and now we're down to the last few years where we can even hope to make a difference. Had people started taking greenhouse emissions seriously in 1997, we might have had a chance.
- nwah1 6y agoThe emissions have been near the best-case projections, and far below the average and worst-case projections https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-unstoppable-momentum-of-outdated https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-unstoppable-momentu...
- redis_mlc 6y agoThanks for the link. FYI: I worked on the ozone hole crisis 35 years ago. That climate crisis had clear scientific measurements, and the global community united to solve it by banning CFCs, while this climate crisis is apparently pseudo-science and virtue-signalling in comparison. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion#Ozone_hole_and_its_causes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion#Ozone_hole_and...
- matthewdgreen 6y agoThe best-case projections (of the unmitigated emission scenarios) are pretty frigging scary.
- redis_mlc 6y agoClimate change is not our biggest problem - the fact that the CCP has 200 nukes pointed at the US ranks far, far higher. Nobody is going to do anything about climate change, so get on with your life.