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Originally Posted by Mazer
That lack of data had a lot to do with the venue in which this talk was given. At TED conferences the speakers are only allowed 18 minutes, just enough time to present an idea. But his methodology and data didn't need to be presented because he wasn't actually trying to explain how to geoengineer the planet. The focus of his talk was that the taboo subject of geoengineering should be pulled out of the closet, discussed publicly and actively investigated by more climate scientists, possibly with government funding.
I was intrigued by this talk because he questioned many of the assumptions people make about global warming, primarily the the one that global warming is bad for everyone.
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People don't make that assumption, they're fed bullshit propaganda telling them that. I read long ago about increased agricultural productivity, lower heating bills, easier transportation, and general economic benefit from global warming but the mass media filters those results and dishes out stupid crap about colder/hotter/wetter/drier-disaster scenarios to get a rise out of the moronic masses.
What really needs discussed is the deceptive and hypocritical people who are turning climate science into a battle of public manipulation and how to dissuade them when their idiot idolizers don't care how many lies they tell or how much global impact they create as long as they can bathe in their magnificent presence.
A firing squad seems appropriate, but throwing them out into a cold winter night in their undies has a certain poetic appeal.