Appearances much to the contrary, I am NOT a defender of the viability of the theory of a sharp change in the physical climate, caused by excess human-originated CO2 in the atmosphere.
Rather, I prefer to see myself as first and foremost an attacker of the viability of the climate of Modernity. Its continued viability is what I choose to doubt.
By contrast, its true believers , those who defend the continued viability of the climate of Modernity, are people like Senator JamesInhofe of Oklahoma.
A person otherwise much regarded as a denier of the viability of the change in our physical climate, caused by excess CO2 from his state's oil wells.
'Surprising how different the whole thing looks, if you peer into the other end of the telescope'.
So opined Charles Dickens about hundred and seventy five years ago , hereabouts, and I have never had any reasons to doubt him.
In fact my very first publication, 38 years ago, was called "TELESCOPE" in ironic appreciation of Mr Dickens' wise suggestion....
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Why My Urgency ?
- Michael Marshall
- Nova Scotia
- Histories of WWII all start with the presumption that it was a war raged between humans and human ideologies, with Nature’s climate and geography as side issues easily surmounted.My blog, on the contrary will only accept that it was conflict between humans and their ideology that STARTED the war but that it was the barriers thrown up by Mother Nature (geography & climate) that turned it into a war that lasted between 6 to 15 years and expanded to thoroughly involve all the world’s oceans and continents. High Modernity may have started the war convinced that Nature had been conquered and was about to be soon replaced by human Synthetic Autarky and that only human Tiger tanks and human Typhoon planes were to be feared. But by the end, more and more people had lost their naive faith in Scientism and were beginning to accept that humanity was thoroughly entangled with both the Nature of plants, animals & microbes as well as the Nature of so called “lesser” humanity. By 1965, the world was definitely entering the Age of Entanglement. Billions still believed - at least in part -with the promises of High Modernity but intellectually & emotionally, it was no longer dominant...
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