Quick and direct answers to common questions you're likely to encounter about climate change.
Q: Do you believe in climate change?
A: I believe in climate change, not climate catastrophe. The world has warmed 1 degree C in the last 170 years. Humans have some influence. But because we are so adaptable, the climate death rate has fallen 98% over the last century.1
Q: Are you a climate change denier?
A: I’m a climate thinker.
I recognize that climate is ever-changing, that humans have some influence, and that humans with abundant machine power can master any climate. That's why as CO2 levels have gone up, climate deaths have plummeted.2
Q: What should be done about CO2 emissions?
A: We should definitely not do anything that raises the cost of energy in a world where billions already can't afford it. The only humane policies are more adaptation to keep us safe and more innovation to make low-carbon energy cheap.3
Q: What will happen if we hit the dreaded 1.5 degrees C of warming?
A: A better version of what happened when we hit the 1 degree of warming we're at now. It’ll be a little warmer, a lot greener, and, most importantly, the miracle of machine power will be even more abundant.4
Q: Even if we've been able to adapt to CO2 rises so far, won't further change be overwhelming?
A: The pessimistic UN is talking about a few degrees of warming and a few feet of sea level rises *over a century*. We can adapt to that with today's tech, let alone future tech.5
Q: Aren't the CA wildfires proof that we need to switch to green energy as fast as possible?
A: The CA *blackouts* are proof that we need to *stop* switching to unreliable green energy. CA wildfires are proof that we need to remove huge amounts of excess fuel from CA forests.6
Article Courtesy of Alex Epstein's Energy Talking Points at www.EnergyTalkingPoints.com
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