Thread by @Pinboard

I know this is satire, but having a few years of farewell-themed Arctic cruises is a legit fantastic idea. (The Antarctic has a more complicated response to climate change and we can save it for later) theonion.com/norwegian-crui…

There's a messaging problem here too, in that having zillions of square miles of frozen wasteland become more hospitable to life is a little off-brand for climate change. We'll all miss the polar bear but Canadian surf resorts with 21 hours of summer daylight are pretty exciting

The Debbie Downer approach to global warming is fatiguing and we deserve to enjoy some of the silver linings. People spent centuries searching for the Northwest Passage until we just finally created one. Cool!

My home is about 10 meters above sea level, I really dislike the one neighbor who lives between me and the ocean, and so I'm kind of excited to lose the Greenland ice cap.

I find the Democrats' decision to frame global warming as "we will have billions of refugees, exacerbating global injustices" instead of "this is a huge opportunity for American technology and if we play it right we can make a fortune" pretty regrettable. Gotta learn to sell it.

The part of the "Climate Emergency" messaging I hate is the implication that we can save things if we act aggressively right now. We are not being honest with people. The choice is between a 3º and 4ºC warmer world (or whatever it is), not about preserving what we have right now.

We're also not being honest about who will get to make the choice, which is basically billions of people in Asia who might prefer a hot industrialized life where you can blast the A/C to slightly less hot subsistence farming. You can't just tell them 'no' so we can keep Miami.

My rosy outcome scenario for global warming is massive population shifts out of the American south and West that fix the rural skew in Senate representation, and a Florida that finally submerges just as it becomes a Republican lock.

Final point in this rant—it's incoherent to say climate change is a crisis if you oppose good old American fission. Nuclear energy is (bright, glowing) green energy that requires no technological breakthroughs, emits no carbon, and we should be building reactors by the dozen.