I looked at the twitter account and the website by the same name. He's serious. They're both utterly devoted to climate change denial and it doesn't have any of the fun whimsy of satire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Milloy
If he's not actually serious, it's only because he's spreading things he knows are false for money.
IIRC, a few months back we were sneering at a post from Ozy (who is usually one of the saner Rationalists) where they said that because estimated casualties of global warming were "only" in the 200-400 million range, it wasn't an existential risk and therefore Effective Altruists should ignore it and focus on stopping the evil robots Skynet keeps sending to murder Sarah Connor.
Okay…okay, let’s say the temperature rises to an average of 600
degrees. Let’s say it rises to 800 degrees! You think that people aren’t
just going to…sell their houses and move? Trapped with logic!
In fairness, he’s not wrong: Earth will continue to exist! Whether
human beings do, in what numbers, and whether it will just be the global
elite living in tolerable comfort while the serfs toil while boiling or
pound at the gates to be let in from the flood, is another question…
…which I suppose he doesn’t care about, because he thinks he’ll be
one of the elite.
This…is a joke…right?
Okay…okay, let’s say the temperature rises to an average of 600 degrees. Let’s say it rises to 800 degrees! You think that people aren’t just going to…sell their houses and move? Trapped with logic!
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“thermonuclear war would be horrible”
Insanity. If not for fusion energy, the Solar system would not even exist.
and 0 life forms live in venus…
Someone please make this man science.
In fairness, he’s not wrong: Earth will continue to exist! Whether human beings do, in what numbers, and whether it will just be the global elite living in tolerable comfort while the serfs toil while boiling or pound at the gates to be let in from the flood, is another question…
…which I suppose he doesn’t care about, because he thinks he’ll be one of the elite.
What the fuck