Is it pointless now to fight climate change?

It am dat Sabine again. Worth listening to I think, though you're not obliged to accept every word. Mostly interesting because she segues into SRM (see reflecting sunlight). Presumably triggered by the Nude Scientist article, but sadly it is paywalled.

Lest one should get too carried away, I notice that Shaun Thingy, when actually quoted on his own webpage, is a good deal less forward. For myself, I think what I thought before: that we should be researching it, and not put of by the harpy like shrieking of the "environmentalists" who are opposed; they are no more really friends of the Earth any more than the pro-Hamxs types actually have the best interests of the Pales at heart.

Somewhat relatedly, my evolving views on global warming by John M. Wallace is worth reading  (std note: the only ref to him on my blog I can find is this comment by crandles).

And while I'm here I should note Bill Gate's Three tough truths about climate. RP is, naturally enough, happy to hear it. And the usual nutters call it "soft denial". Mann doesn't quite use the D-word himself, but he does have stupid things to say on the subject¹. And we wonder why it is so hard to have an intelligent conversation on the subject.

Refs

* And right on cue, some self-righteousness from some climbers. I too regret melting glaciers, but we're all burning fossil fuels to get to the mounains, and no that is not the fault of the Evil Fossil Fuel companies, it is the fault of the people burning the fuels.

* The Competitive Chaos Behind Moore’s Law by Brian Albrecht.

Notes

1. And it gets worse; Nurture gives him the space to say Gates wasn’t implying that global warming is “good for you”, but his arguments are adjacent to that sentiment which is dumb.