An opening mind | Climate Etc.

In the comments, Lynas recommends nofrakkingconsensus. Barry Woods recommends that he read Montford’s The Hockey Stick Illusion and Climate Etc.(!) Lynas responds:

I haven’t read the Hockey Stick Illusion, but I will if you send me a free copy! Same with Judith Curry – I have seen her being vilified, but I haven’t gone deeply into it.

Quadrant Online - Innovation: The Garnaut Cult

Professor Garnaut sees a tax on carbon (dioxide) as not sufficient to drive innovation. He wants to encourage companies by luring them with extra rewards. But this looks a bit like the Cargo Cult of New Guinea. You sit on the beach, this time with cash rewards or tax breaks rather than simulated landing strips and control towers, and technologists will arrive bearing most welcome gifts of new technology provided they are not nuclear. Like the MRET scheme here is yet another projected market failure that needs government help.

COMMENTARY: Climate Change Chronicles | Huntington News

It seems that unless we change our behaviors very soon, climate change will radically alter the conditions for all life on the planet.

Climate change seems to me a threshold event that calls into question much of what we are and what we do as a species.
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Another story was expressed by a friend of mine when I mentioned, in the fall of 2007, the then soon-to-be-released book by Hubert Reeves titled “Terricide”. (I haven’t read his book. From the promotional blurb: “One of the world's greatest astrophysicists, Hubert Reeves has turned his attention to the state of planet Earth. The facts and figures he has studied lead him to believe that the human race is on the brink of making the world uninhabitable.”) Her response was, “I can't believe the world we face. It is mass human suicide. That's what terracide really is.”