The madness of Jeremy Grantham: Now he suggests that CO2-induced bad weather is "a bigger threat than Hitler"

Jeremy Grantham on how to feed the world and why he invests in oil | Leo Hickman | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Now [climate change] is at least half of the focus for the foundation. And in the other half it brushes up against climate all the time. We are late arrivals to all this and I have nothing but admirations to those who beat me to the punch by a few decades.
...I have an honest disagreement with Bill McKibben. Our foundation helps fund his efforts and I have great admiration for him.
...In the long run, the carbon equation that Bill McKibben has gloriously helped to popularise in Rolling Stone is in front of everyone's nose. We've got five times the amount of carbon reserves to cook our goose.
...It's a 50/50 shot that declining fertility rates and alternative energy will save our bacon.
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It isn't that we can't do it, it's that the Anglo-Saxon countries – where, by the way, there is a vast concentration of oil companies – are rather intractable on this issue and they've managed to find a little army of non-scientific, persuasive "loony lords", as I call them, to argue the case, either because they like being wined and dined by the enemy, or because they're naturally contrarian and like the publicity, or that they are genuine idiots. Who knows?
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The Manhattan Project was brilliant and is the highpoint of our achievements as a species...It was our best-ever response to a problem. Civilisations have fallen for the lack of something like that. For once, we came up with the right response, but you can't count on that being our natural reflex as a species. If it was, we would have analysed the problem of climate change and energy, and decided it was a bigger threat than Hitler. But we didn't get a Pearl Harbour or invasion of Poland. We're not programmed to respond to vague, problematical - you can't put a precise number on it – and the long term. That is not our strength. We're much better when the tiger attacks and the bombs drop. [Superstorm] Sandy was probably the closest thing we've had [in the US] to a Pearl Harbour moment in terms of moving public opinion of whether climate change is real.