Well, the blog is literally called “climatehopium”, so, eeeh…
There are certainly some major challenges for a transition to clean energy ahead. The majority still seems to not see the necessity, or at least not don’t see why they should change anything.
Also, as a nitpick, with 8 billion people on the earth, even a scenario where 1 or 2 billion people die, either from lack of food or water or from the resulting struggles for the remaining resources, is technically not “truly apocalyptic”.
The majority just want what’s cheap; I think the blog makes this argument well. Renewables are cheaper for the vast majority of applications, and so they become the responsible, pragmatic, easy, automatic thing to do.
editing to add: ‘avoiding apocalyptic levels of warning’ = ‘halved expected total warming as of late ~2024’. This particular nugget of hopium was from before iran war, and so we’re likely to see further reductions as the models update over the next ~year
Well, the blog is literally called “climatehopium”, so, eeeh…
There are certainly some major challenges for a transition to clean energy ahead. The majority still seems to not see the necessity, or at least not don’t see why they should change anything.
Also, as a nitpick, with 8 billion people on the earth, even a scenario where 1 or 2 billion people die, either from lack of food or water or from the resulting struggles for the remaining resources, is technically not “truly apocalyptic”.
The majority just want what’s cheap; I think the blog makes this argument well. Renewables are cheaper for the vast majority of applications, and so they become the responsible, pragmatic, easy, automatic thing to do.
editing to add: ‘avoiding apocalyptic levels of warning’ = ‘halved expected total warming as of late ~2024’. This particular nugget of hopium was from before iran war, and so we’re likely to see further reductions as the models update over the next ~year