Warmist Jonathan Koomey on the alleged threat of trace amounts of carbon dioxide: "Climate change is probably the biggest challenge modern humanity has ever faced. It’s bigger than World War II...[it's] an existential threat to human civilization"

The Scope Of The Problem

Climate change is probably the biggest challenge modern humanity has ever faced.  It’s bigger than World War II, because it will take decades to vanquish this foe.  It’s harder than ozone depletion, whose causes were far less intertwined with industrial civilization than fossil fuels and other sources of greenhouse gases.  And it’s more intractable than the Great Depression (or our current economic malaise) because financial crises eventually pass, assuming we learn from past mistakes and fix the financial system (again!).

...Will we be able to avoid the worst effects of climate change?  Nobody knows for sure, but in the face of an existential threat to human civilization, that’s the wrong question.  We must do whatever we can, as Winston Churchill said during World War II: “What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory — victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.”

Posts by Jonathan Koomey

Jonathan Koomey is a Consulting Professor at Stanford University, worked for more than two decades at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and has been a visiting professor at Stanford University (2003-4 and Fall 2008), Yale University (Fall 2009), and UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group (Fall 2011).

Dr. Koomey holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley, and an A.B. in History of Science from Harvard University.