Tuesday, January 27, 2009

The Reference Frame: Weather in the year 3000
It would be nice if people who are not hysterical crackpots like Susan Solomon were looking into these arguably speculative questions, too. What do I think about the climate in the year 3,000? Let me begin with the carbon dioxide - just because it is so popular these days.
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I am always amazed by the people who are ready to suggest e.g. that the sea level rise by 1 meter per millenium is a "lot" or a reason to reorganize the behavior of the mankind, if I use a modest formulation. ;-) Where do these feelings come from? Well, the answer is obvious. All these people are mollycoddled academicians who are guaranteed permanent salaries from the governments (i.e. taxpayers) and who spend their lives in perfectly air-conditioned offices with a constant temperature.

They have no idea about the real world. They have no idea about Nature where the average temperatures have been changing by 10 °C and sea levels were rising and dropping by hundreds of meters. They have no idea that conditions in Nature (and in the free markets) are dynamically changing in both directions. Most of them have no idea that the Universe began near the Planckian temperatures (10^{32} Kelvin) and the outer space is as cool as 2.7 K.They're just used to their static life that entirely depends on the government and they want to promote it into a law of Nature.

But their static life would be impossible if Nature didn't know what a chance means, if there were no people who actually work in different temperatures, under different oil prices and exchange rates, and whose convenient life is simply not guaranteed by the taxpayer. These people are the taxpayers themselves. These people have to produce values, heat, and entropy so that a "chosen minority" can consume the values, keep the temperature, and permanently lower their entropy. ;-)

But the pampered scholars don't see it. They think that the wealth and comfort is automatic and whenever it is not, it is because of an evil capitalist who has stolen wealth from the super-rich society based on primitive communism.
This just in: Right after Obama inauguration, media bombards the public with pure climate propaganda: Emperor penguins could be virtually extinct by 2100, scientists say - Telegraph
Latest predictions based on climate change models show their numbers dropping 95 per cent by 2100, meaning there would be only about 600 breeding pairs left.

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