Are you worried by climate change?

In short, not especially.

I believe in climate change and am even open to the idea that humans contribute and am not per say opposed to initiatives that reduce emmisions, pollution or increase sustainability (there are long term benefits to energy independence both economically and geo-politically).

With that being said (and i am a big fan of meteorology so have read a lot) i am not especially concerned and find the hysteria of the media and many of this generation to be misplaced. While it is true that there are impacts to be had from climate change the idea that some try to push about a world in which we cannot survive is severely misplaced. Most of the effects of drought and heat and resultant famine for example will be felt in Africa. For the UK and Scandinavia for example (and Canada) there are even postulated economic benefits due to the longer growing season (though discussion of it is discouraged for some reason).

In short i do support a move to renewables and the like but i am not one that is willing to tax our populous or engage in hysteria to do so. We in the UK will be perfectly fine for the next century or so.

This is a non-argument whether one supports climate change or not. Paradoxically you should not actually expect any increase in North Atlantic hurricanes because the primary driver of our hurricane seasons is the ENSO base state. Climate change actually produces more El Nino's which paradoxically increase shear over the North Atlantic basin. In terms of hurricane activity it is the Pacific which would see an increase in activity.

Now the fact that the Pacific Decadal Occilation has not been especially effected by climate change is perhaps more relevant since this is a significant contributor to global angular momentum. When we had a run of poor summers between 07-12 for example it was in part due to the a significant multi-year negative PDO base state.

There's 1.3billion Africans.

There's barely 50million of us. Hm I wonder what my interest is? What happens when there's 2 billion, 3 billion, 5billion, 10billion of them. How are they going to drink, eat, where are they going to live? Of course we need to control population! Not least because they are industrialising.

And this is exactly the reason why I say I hope for an ice age or pandemic, because nobody will face the elephant in the room. "You're not allowed to say having 10billion Africans pop up in a few decades is bad thing! That's racist! We have unlimited infinite resources!". Thus it'll never get solved, we're on the brink of apocalypse and middle class white illiberals are only concerned with virtue signaling.



"Hurr durr you industrialized in the past that means its ok to let populations get out of control and for 10billion africans to industrialise in 50 years who needs oxygen and air and forests anyway?"

Alright.

You're not helping anyone. By virtue signaling and not allowing people to talk about this very real problem all you're doing is encouraging and causing more famine, more starvation, more global warming, more pollution. You aren't their friend.

It's common sense that smaller, more manageable populations will be able to build and thrive.

I get excited every time I hear news of a pandemic. I hope it'll be the big one. We need full global societal collapse and a good century or two of pure survival and natural selection.

Then civilizations will rise again around the world, repopulate and hopefully learn from our mistakes from their archeological digs of us.

People like to talk about climate change but are not prepared to do their bit for it. As humans we would have to radically change how we eat, live, travel, interact and develop.

All those clothes, food, shoes and many more products that we use would have to be reduced to reduce the impact.

The issue really here is that there's not much we can do to stop the human contribution to global warming. There are basically more important things that require our resource.

And in any case, it's not exactly self-evident that we are causing significant long term damage. That's not yet clear.

Erm yes it is.Its been clear for many years now that we are doing long term damage to the climate.Most of the effects of human induced climate change will probably last thousands of years.