Great Regulars: Climate change really means Mother Nature

is preparing to rid herself of humans. If we are to survive, we can no longer worship her, we must fight back with smart weapons. So we have to embrace nuclear--there is no other source of clean energy which can sustain our societies--and genetically engineered 'Frankenfoods'. Ideally, these would be synthesised in laboratories. Farming, as Lovelock has pointed out, is a planetary catastrophe, stripping out biodiversity and filling the atmosphere with the methane from cow farts.

from Bryan Appleyard: Literary Review: Bryan Appleyard on Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand

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In other words, pushing another half trillion tons of carbon into the atmosphere should raise temperatures by a degree or so, but it might raise them by much more. Or it could start climate flickering in which climate changes repeatedly from one state to another every few years. It's happened in the past. Either way, you can kiss your way of life goodbye.

The reality of non-linearity and complex systems is actually the most basic and irrefutable argument for cutting emissions.

from Bryan Appleyard: The Sunday Times: Global warming is real

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