googled this idiot’s name and found this article from 2004 where he peddles typical climate denialist talking points. Very predictable. We’re going to see this a lot - these people would go from “climate change isn’t real” to “it’s real but it’s too late to do anything about it”
There’s a Yes Minister clip they’ve been using as a blueprint since the 80s (well, before that too, but the clip exemplified it)
Bernard Woolley: What if the Prime Minister insists we help them?
Appleby: Then we follow the four-stage strategy.
Woolley: What’s that?
Sir Richard Wharton: Standard Foreign Office response in a time of crisis. In stage one we say nothing is going to happen.
Appleby: Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it.
Wharton: In stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there’s nothing we can do.
Appleby: Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it’s too late now.
Another classic is argument is: yes it’s happening, but we are smol bean so it doesn’t matter if we do nothing because China will release too much co2 regardless
There was an article posted here earlier this year (probably FT or WSJ, though I can’t find the link) that was literally “China is decarbonizing too fast, but at what cost”.
googled this idiot’s name and found this article from 2004 where he peddles typical climate denialist talking points. Very predictable. We’re going to see this a lot - these people would go from “climate change isn’t real” to “it’s real but it’s too late to do anything about it”
There’s a Yes Minister clip they’ve been using as a blueprint since the 80s (well, before that too, but the clip exemplified it)
Another classic is argument is: yes it’s happening, but we are smol bean so it doesn’t matter if we do nothing because China will release too much co2 regardless
There was an article posted here earlier this year (probably FT or WSJ, though I can’t find the link) that was literally “China is decarbonizing too fast, but at what cost”.
There are so many people who piss in the public pool so it doesn’t matter if I stop doing it. (Continues pissing)