This is Tankster’s Newsletter, a newsletter about Random thoughts calling out Fuckery.
We are exposed to a constant barrage of TEOTWAWKI warnings about the doom and gloom and fiery end end of the planet due to overheating. Here’s another example: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01132-6. It was written by many people with Exeter, a prestiegous university in the UK. Setting aside that I’ll take a critical thinking Florida Gator over some other nerd with a high falutin’ degree and position, where is the research on what cold does to humans? The earth has been through a cycle of its own heating and warming, volcanoes, belching, sunspots and other naturally occurring phases all on its own. Greenland was farmed at one point in Homo Sapien Habilis, Erectus or other Homo periods. I don’t know what the state of beings was when 5 kilomteres of ice covered North America as far down as central Illinois and Iowa, 21.500 years ago. What I do know is that we evolved in warmer climes when Lucy and her progeny emerged out of Africa, and things weren’t so good during ice ages.
The hysteria over 3 degrees is constant and there will be a cost to all the destruction by a melting Greenland does within 10-100 miles of coasts worldwide. I don’t think the new settlers of Canada or Russia will think that’s so bad.
There is no “Battery fairy” who can wave a wand and give us backup for intermittent sources of “Green” power. SMR’s may be able to be deployed, soon, to provide base power, if we get our heads out of our collective asses in time.
In the meantime, if you want to “Save the Earth” (which doesn’t care about the modern US or other elite post-industrial lifestyle), don’t eat sentient beings.