Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Columbia Climate School green entrepreneur Kevin Webb explaining his goal of converting the climate sinners and restoring Little Ice Age CO2 levels.
Beyond Climate Change: What Happens Once We Control the Global Thermostat?
BY KEVIN WEBB |DECEMBER 14, 2021
As flooding subsumes Toronto, NYC experiences its greatest single-hour downpour on record, Oregon continues to blaze…
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I get to speak from a privileged position. For the past several years I’ve been investing in startups that have positive ecosystem and climate impacts. Some are working on electrification and efficiency, to reduce the need for oil and gas in the first place. Others are finding ways to capture oceanic or atmospheric carbon dioxide efficiently, so we can not only stop emissions, but have a chance to return our atmospheric levels to the ~280 parts per million (PPM) that almost all of human civilization has known until recently.
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Personally, I’m bullish. My underpinning rationale is as follows:
- Climate change will get worse before it gets better. This is news to no one who’s paying attention; the world continues to increase atmospheric CO2 by the day, which traps more of the sun’s heat. This in turn disrupts the weather patterns, watersheds, ocean currents, and more that humanity has built civilizations around. Even if we stopped CO2 emissions today, these impacts will take decades, possibly centuries, to play out. (All the more reason to get to net-zero emissions ASAP.)
- This means every year will bring new converts, who not only believe in climate change, but believe they must personally be involved in solutions. Writers, politicians, artists, engineers, investors — the world needs wholesale change, and there’s room for everyone to bring their skillsets, values, and perspectives. Nations and companies that neglect these voters, employees, investors, regulators and customers will do so at their peril.
- We need to run the clock backwards. The CO2 levels of the “Goldilocks period” most of humanity has existed through (roughly the past 10,000 years, which saw the development of agriculture and cities) will look increasingly appealing compared with the coming several years and decades ahead. (On principle, I believe 280 PPM should be the benchmark CO2 level).
- Technology is here. More will come. Building technology to slow, stop, and reverse climate change should be good enough to drive consumer and corporate adoption. It’s not. Between inertia, subsidies, and legacy infrastructure, today’s entrepreneurs and technologists must actively make offerings that are better. Doing so is far from easy, but when transitioning makes sense not only ethically but financially, it starts to feel inevitable.
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Personally I’m bullish we’ll continue pumping CO2 and greening the Earth. And the climate crisis movement will fade away once even hardcore believers realise it is all a big nothing burger.
People who promulgate the increasing-dangerous-weather meme are either profoundly uninformed, or evil.
profoundly evil?
Like many of the profoundly evil people who have screwed up this word in the 20th C, the fail to live to see they consequences of their actions. For them, power is its own reward: bugger the proles!
Stupid.
Bingo we have a winner.
As stupid as Simon?
I was going to say something similar. Notice his sunnies? Did he not read the report from NZ that states a dog is worse for CO2 emissions than a car?
Exactly. In this case, it is evil, for it is abundantly clear that he is merely a greedy man trying to get people to “buy my stuff.”
Given the enormous amount of evidence against his position, he is deliberately (i.e., fraudulent) or, at best, recklessly (i.e., he knows that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about and says it anyway) misrepresenting the facts.
IT’S ALL ABOUT MONEY.
Money is not inherently evil, the love of money is. Since lying about human CO2 will directly cause great human misery for the foreseeable future (no, technology is not even CLOSE to being able to replace fossil fuels — moreover, there (Edit: is ) no reason to do so), HIS pursuit of financial gain is EVIL, indeed.
Sickening.
And using an innocent, loving, little doggie to sell this lie….. makes you want to throw a shovelful of organic fertilizer into that schmarmy grin.
“Given the enormous amount of evidence against his position, he is deliberately (i.e., fraudulent) or, at best, recklessly (i.e., he knows that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about and says it anyway) misrepresenting the facts.”
Yes, he ought to know better, and probably does. Of course, self-delusion is a powerful thing. There may be some of that involved, too.
Janice, I noticed the 280 ppm benchmark as well.
I wonder how 350.org would respond?
Heh. 🤨
That 280ppm/v is an estimate not a measure. He is clearly an idiot.
I wish this Fake Crisis was just about money.
This is a huge power play by already powerful Elites. Their utopian plans require the destruction of the US and our Constitution.
Money means nothing to these Oligarchs.
The dog has intelligent looking eyes…
Wait a minute! From what it (he, I guess) was saying, I thought that fur bearing creature WAS Kevin Webb! My bad. My dog has a lot more sense.
In fairness, Janice, I have to say he’s the first one I’ve ever seen actually put a number to the “right” CO2 level. Even if he’s wrong, at least he’s not equivocating.
Hi Janice — nice to see you here.
So, let’s see … please tell us what you *really* think.
Your analysis can apply equally well to those pushing the mRNA jab, by the way. Yes power-mad, no science. And malignant intentions for children.
Hi, Pat 🙂 Good to see you, too. Heh. And, sadly, yes… .
Or more precise Terminally Stupid.
Weapons grade idiot ! is my preferred term.
This bloke is taking advantage of opportunity, he is putting his money in what believes will enhance his wealth, no worse than electric car maker Elon Musk, whose business is also subsidised by taxpayers and is currently richest person in the world.
Al Gore and multiple celebrities, on one hand are buying properties along ocean beaches and on the other telling us that cities like New York or London will be submerged, are real hypocrites.
In popular use, the terms “Climate Change”, “Climate Crisis”, “Climate Catastrophe” etc. comprise a “non-falsifiable hypothesis”, aka “the prattling of fools”.
Whenever you hear people using these ”Climate Scare” terms, you can confidently dismiss them as alarmists, fraudsters, etc.
The proper term is “Catastrophic Human-made Global Warming” (CAGW), allegedly caused by increasing atmospheric CO2, allegedly caused by increasing fossil fuel combustion – BUT THERE IS NO CATASTROPHIC GLOBAL WARMING – that hypothesis has been disproved – it’s a decades-old scam.
Now, fossil fuel combustion is still increasing, atmospheric CO2 is still increasing, but global temperatures are now COOLING. We correctly predicted this cooling in 2002 and again in more detail in 2013.
The alleged “Climate Change” scare was always a fraud with no scientific merit, a scam concocted by scoundrels for political and financial gain – wolves stampeding the sheep.
Now cold records are falling all over the planet, and green energy schemes are proving incapable of supplying much-needed power for humans and industry – again, just as we predicted in 2002 and 2013.
The climate crisis is cancelled – it never was real – it was always a scam, concocted by scoundrels to frighten imbeciles – and it worked, for a while.
SNOWFALL RECORDS (FROM THE 1800S) FALL IN NEVADA & CALIFORNIA–JUST AS NEW BOGUS STUDY CLAIMS “NO SNOW” IN 35 YEARS
December 15, 2021 Cap Allon
Dr. John Christy: “Little known to the public is the fact that most of the scientists involved with the IPCC do not agree that global warming is occurring. Its findings have been consistently misrepresented and/or politicized with each succeeding report.”
Elon Musk makes more money from selling “carbon credits” to makers of ICE cars than he does from making electric cars.
Does he really make any money making and selling his cars? His operating profits include some non-vehicle operations.
Or have an expensive lifestyle to maintain
Interesting,
Of course, no exact details are forthcoming; like size, cost, how long until a production line is running, etc…
One day Kevin Webb will come down from this high.
Until then I hope he doesn’t hurt himself.
It is one thing to be misinformed, but wishing to stay that way is ___?__.
Climate bible thumping again
Will there be any big top revival events in Russia, China, India, or the Muslim world? Or will it be more beach gatherings this time?
“Climate school” being taught by a pseudo-technology startup entrepreneur seeking “converts” sounds like a combination of 19th century snake oil salesman (in this case, environmental miracle elixirs) and a pyramid schemer. All sanctioned by a university to give it a patina of legitimacy.
Yawn, another well-meaning do-gooder shown up with another false claim to a “climate emergency” shibboleth. The low IQ drivel go on year after year while the evidence for Climate Emergency never shows up as Willis Eschenbauch pointed out in the article
Where Is The “Climate Emergency”? (LINK)
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When will this idiotic statement stop showing up? as it is stupid as the fool who thinks CO2 is the dominant cause of climate change:
CO2 is the bogeyman of the dumb warmist/alarmist camp
What a cop-out! It’ll take until after I’ve left this mortal coil (and left all my wealth to my antecedents) before anyone realises I was a grifter.
Next to nothing, fading away to absolutely noting over the course of decades.
While new battery (and electric motors) technology is advancing on several fronts, and is interesting, it has nothing to do with global warming.
Anyone who thinks the Little Ice Age was good has perverse tastes.
“(On principle, I believe 280 PPM should be the benchmark CO2 level)”
On principle Mother Nature believes 1,000ppm+ should be the benchmark CO2 level as the dominant organism on the planet, plant life, flourishes at that level.
Who are you to tell Mother Nature what’s best for the planet?
Ignorant, arrogant little twerp.
Remember those margarine commercials, in which an actress embodying Mother Nature said “Don’t mess with Mother Nature”?
I remember. Mother Nature can be quite hamfisted with smarty pants persons like this Kevin person.
Just sayin’ what that ad used to say: Don’t mess with Mother Nature!!!
Nature? If anyone ever tried margerine before colour and flavours are added, they’d vomit. It’s about as unnatural as a food can be.
“new converts, who not only believe in
climate changeour new religion, but believe they must personally beinvolved in solutionsgo forth and preach to the heathen”they could learn from the Jesuits and Mormons
No. They are more likely to learn at the knee of Jim Jones.
“New Convert”
I think he *will* see new converts, but they will be converting to skepticism, they won’t be joining his alarmist bandwagon.
will we see batteries that can send Elon Musk into space?
And then everything they do requires using fossil fuels to do it, hilarious the hypocrisy! Oh, but in their minds they are “doing good work” and that excuses them from being real. Follow the money.
There is plenty of money (in the West) to buy indulgences. Vanity signaling also requires lots of cash provided by consumers and taxpayers.
When you get converted, does your head get dipped in carbonated water?
I have no desire to be immersed in CO2.
You are already immersed in CO2. Albeit a mild solution.
Almost at homoeopathic levels of solution
Converts become believers in religious or political orthodoxies. No science involved.
This isn’t about the climate, is it?
No, I think it is about the money in this case.
Does drinking Dr. Pepper count?
Still gets charged by fossil fuels. Why not just burn it directly and cut out the middle man?
Yes, we “saw the development of agriculture and cities,” those two useless artifacts of human civilization! I honestly believe some of these people are mentally defective.
You cannot fix stupid.
A swift kick in the nuts helps though.
HotScot you are on your game today. +1
A whack with a 2×4 up alongside the head will stun it and slow it down a bit.
A series of whacks is probably more effective.
Ah, but helps whom?
I like to think of such people as Slinkies. They serve absolutely no purpose, but sometimes it’s fun to push them down stairs.
Ha! Every year there are increasingly more climate apostates (and already there are far more agnostics than believers, heh, heh, heh).
Truth will win.
Bwah, ha, ha, ha, haaaaaaaaaaa!
That we’re being force-fed with
Listening to NPR and PBS here in Michigan, jeesh, the libs have themselves in an echo chamber, they just keep repeating the same climate boilerplate over and over! I can tell that they are turning a deaf ear to counter claims, it is really obvious what they are doing. Childish games, and of course there is the bold Leftist projection: claiming that others are doing (the bad things) that they are doing. I hope we are near or past peak doublespeak from the Left.
Well, the mayor of LA has turned from ‘Defund the Police’ 18 months ago to ‘Reinstate the police and criminalise drug abuse on the streets’ – with $120m within the past week, so perhaps there is hope that liberals are beginning to wake up.
Reality does have a way of intruding on ideology. Too bad it takes so long and causes great damage to average people.
That’s way too gentle a process.
Liberals have to be bashed over the head with reality before they cotton on to something.
Well, the mayor of LA has turned…
Might it possibly have something to do with the head of the LA Police Protective League publicly telling people to NOT visit because it’s too dangerous?
Well, since the world will continue to experience weather extremes, NPR, PBS, and the rest of the government controlled media will always have fodder for their alarmism. It has been Western governments’ policy since the 1990s that CO2 leads to dangerous global warming.
Columbia University seems determined to trash its reputation, if it had one to start with.
Everyone that aspired to the Ivy League wound up Columbia the gem of the oceans the home of the………you know the rest.
Columbia has kind of become Leftwing Propaganda Central.
Columbia used to teach journalism, not it teaches how to lie to the public.
as my life progresses to it’s inevitable end my early estimate of 90% of the population being stupid looks more and more like a gross underestimate of reality
I wouldn’t think it was as high as 90 percent.
Trump got 75,000,000 people to vote for him for president the second time around. That’s almost half of the voters (depending on who is doing the counting), so there are a lot of people who are savvy enough to vote the right way.
So were the ones who didn’t vote for Trump stupid, or were they just duped by too much leftwing propaganda and distortions?
Let’s see what the next election holds. There may be a lot of people out there who have suddenly smartened up. I mean, how stupid could you be to vote for Biden a second time? You would have to be pretty d*** stupid.
Midterms will provide a big clue won’t they?
I think so.
It looks like the radical Democrat hard-core base is about 40 percent of the population. Biden’s job approval rating is about 40 percent so we can figure anyone who is polling in Biden’s favor is a hard-core supporter, considering how poorly Biden is doing his job.
So that leaves about 60 percent of the population who are not hard-core radical Democrats.
All the signs are looking very bad for the Democrats. No statistic is going in their favor, and it’s getting worse as time goes by. It is obvious why this is the case: The Democrats are doing a terrible job, and it’s obvious to clear-thinking people.
The Fed is taking steps to control inflation, which should help the Dems in the mid-terms. Unfortunately, the Fed can’t reverse the inflation we’ve already had. Or can they create deflation?
The Fed would have to raise interest rates and doing that hurts the economy.
If you were thinking about getting a new mortgage, now would probably be the time to do it, as interest rates will go higher. And that won’t be pretty for the economy.
Trump was right: If Biden after getting in office, had just gone fishing, and left everything the way Trump had it set up, then the U.S. economy, among other things, would be roaring ahead with no needed input from Joe Biden. Everything Biden does harms the economy. His input is damaging. We couldn’t have elected a more unqualified man than Joe Biden. He’s a total disaster. And we have to put up with him for one more year.
No the economy was severely wounded under Trump. I voted for him both times but Trump made a fatal error. He allowed the CDC and NIH to panic the Governors into shutting down the economy. Unfortunately he didn’t have the training to question what they were doing and he apparently had no advisors qualified to point to Diamond Princess and tell him to fire the top executives at the CDC and NIH.
NIH under Fauci has been at the helm of the COVID sc@ndemic since at least 2014. Certainly been granting funds for “research” in Wuhan since then. That’s before Trump.
Trump was right about one thing, Ivermectin, but because Trump mentioned it, the worlds media pounced on it as “fake news” and CHO’s around the world rejected it.
We know Ivermectin blocks the 3CL enzyme produced by the pancreas which enables long string proteins being broken up so that a virus, like SARS-COV-2, can replicate.
The rest is history and we enter a period of medical apartheid (Certainly true in Australia and New Zealand).
Yeah, the normal appears to be stupid and, as Carlin said, half are stupider than that.
On the other hand, Many of them can be attractive and nice and even useful.
A hammer may be even more useful than a computer.
Maybe every year will bring new converts, but I’m sure there’s a clueless idiot born every day and Kevin’s one of them.
It looks like Kevin has all the climate change talking points down pat, but doesn’t really understand anything relevant. Blah, blah, blah, as Greta says.
“On principle, I believe 280 PPM should be the benchmark CO2 level).”
That is insane or totally ignorant. That was the estimated CO2 level circa 1800.
https://today.oregonstate.edu/news/study-may-solve-long-standing-mystery-why-atmospheric-co2-was-lower-during-ice-ages
Larry,
I joke to my alarmist friends, “green policies are going to take us back to the seventies, the 1770s that is !”
We should set the thermostat at least a little warmer than 280ppm, shouldn’t we?
Kevin seems to think he can control the Earth’s atmosphere’s thermostat. Kevin is really funny. Kevin doesn’t have a clue.
Omg Tom brilliant. A thermostat for greentards where you set your desired CO2 level. I bet Griff, Ghalfrunt, Stokes, Simons and the rest of the clowns would buy one for sure. Remember when Stokes told us how he fought global warming by turning his thermostat down and using an extra blanket? …I still chuckle to this day.
Kevin isn’t funny. Kevin is dangerous. Any idiot that thinks that man can control the Earth’s temperature via control of CO2 emissions is a dangerous, deluded idiot.
Who is the “green entrepreneur” in the photograph: the guy on the left or the guy on the right?
What is a climate “believer”?
It is someone who believes that there is MONEY to be made off the scam, so get in now!
A believer? It’s someone who thinks the sun rises in the West- and that they can fix it so it comes up in the East!
Since ‘climate’ is a noun any other noun can be used for comparison. Personally I’m a car/table/bed/whiskey/wine – take your pick – believer.
Shouldn’t you add song and the ladies to that list.
A disciple of the secular “climate change” religion that pretends to be based on “science” in order to attempt to set themselves apart from what they view as the fools that subscribe to other religions (which are similarly based on blind faith, but, unlike the climate believers, do not attempt to deny that fact).