5 thoughts on “The Scientific Tragedy”

  1. What’s the tragedy (apart from the careers of a few individuals, who in the words of Rick in the movie Casablanca “don’t amount to a hill of beans” compared with the greater good)?

    This probably means that the effect of CO2 from fossil fuels on climate has been overstated, which means that even if humans have and will have an effect on climate, we have more time to transition from a fossil fuel energy economy to a nuclear or space solar power or perhaps even ground solar power with energy storage.

    Transition to some mix of nuclear and solar power is something we shall do and must do. The history of humanity is exponential growth in the utilization of energy resources, and at some point that growth will run up against resource exhaustion or environmental consequences. The alternative to is to stagnate and die as a race.

    But the evidence of “confirmation bias” or whatever you want to call it on the historical temperature record strongly suggests that the human community has more time. The Earth doesn’t have a “fever” and we can make the transition to a post-carbon economy with less disruption and yes, human misery of deprivation and poverty.

    The human race has been issued a new lease on life, and I think we should all be cheerful and glad.

  2. Here’s a tragedy. All this bull crap has settled into our daily lives now. I’m configuring a new Lenovo r400 laptop and I see in the power manager, “Learn about climate changing configuration settings”. Yesssss, my laptop is going to change the climate one reboot at a time.

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