Wishful Thinking Is Not Sound

Think On A 50-year Scale, Which Is A Much More Natural Time-scale For Global Warming. The Us Is Right Now Spending About 200 Million Dollars Annually On Research Into Renewable Energy.

The Second Thing Is, If You Want To Do Something About Global Warming, You Have To Think Much More Long-term. There Is Something Wrong With Saying We Should Start Using Renewables Now, While They Are Still Incredibly Expensive.

We Worry About The Seemingly Ever-increasing Number Of Natural Catastrophes. Yet This Is Mainly A Consequence Of Cnn - We See Many More, But The Number Is Roughly Constant, And We Manage To Deal Much Better With Them Over Time. Globally, The Death Rate From Catastrophes Has Dropped About Fifty-fold Over The Past Century.

I Found University A Little Dispiriting. I Thought I Would Enter The Great Halls Of Plato, But Instead I Entered The Halls Of An Intellectual Sausage Factory. I Wanted To Do Something Not On The Main Course, And Chose The Environment.

Even If I Was A Bad Right Wing Guy, To The Extent Of Whether My Arguments Are Right Or Wrong, They're Right Or Wrong Independently If I'm Right Or Left.