Après moi le déluge?
A chirpy little article in the (AGW-denialist) Investor’s Business Daily talks about the solar cycle, and excitedly says:
Tapping reports no change in the sun’s magnetic field so far this cycle and warns that if the sun remains quiet for another year or two, it may indicate a repeat of that period of drastic cooling of the Earth, bringing massive snowfall and severe weather to the Northern Hemisphere.
Okay. There is some debate about the condition of the sources for this article (basically that they’ve been deliberately edited to contradict what they actually say,) but that’s not what I find interesting about this article. No, the interesting thing about this article is it gives off a distinct air of “woo-hoo, it will mask global warming until we’re long dead, which means we can keep on spewing CO2 without any alterations to our lifestyle, and to hell with our grandchildren!”
That’s very nice, isn’t it? It’s the classic conservative “Screw you, world, I’m going to Disneyland!” motto writ without shame or subterfuge. So what if we harm the planet so that it warms up by a few °C and lays waste to much of the agricultural land it’s got? It’s not going to happen while we’re here, so it doesn’t matter!
Perhaps they expect that their grandchildren will be living in space colonies by then, so it won’t matter if the earth has become a (larger) garbage pit?