[LINK] Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 11:43 +1100, Richard Archer wrote:
> I see peak oil as inevitable and the consequences dire.

Yup.

> I see climate change
> as almost irrelevant. The knowledge and technology exists right
> now to deal with anything climate change can throw at us.

Nope. Not without oil... or a radically reduced population and lots and
lots of time.

> Droughts: we have the knowledge to completely drought-proof
> Australia and even to reclaim deserts.

Nope. Not without oil.

> Storms: we can design and erect buildings that can withstand
> any weather nature can produce. Or in the third world, erect
> buildings that are so cheap that they are almost disposable.

Nope. Not without oil.

> Mass extinctions: climate change triggered extinction events
> will be nowhere near the scale of extinctions humans have
> directly caused.

That's debatable. In any case, when the oil runs out the devastation
will be incredible. Think six billion starving people. They'll erase
almost everything on the land surface of the planet as they go.

Regards, K.

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