It is the source of most climate change denialist material. I will make no comment, look it up and read it for yourself. I have a feeling a lot of what we will be hearing for the next few years is going to sound a lot like this:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/

My take on all this is that a small but influential fraction of the denialist community actually DOES believe in AGW (although they dare not admit it publicly), but they have convinced themselves that it will really not be all that bad. They see it as a change that can be managed, and that in fact, dealing with it will be a potentially lucrative business opportunity.

And of course, as bold, innovative and enterprising entrepreneurs, they will certainly have the financial resources to weather any of its more unpleasant personal consequences. A lot of money will have to be spent to deal with AGW effects, but that investment will not be profitable if it concentrates on the causes of climate change as identified by the “alarmist” community.

Instead, the true financial opportunity will be in redeploying current resource management practices to shelter us from AGW consequences. So for example, rather than burn less fossil fuel, they would increase our petrochemical exploration efforts so that sufficient energy is available to cool our buildings, pump our cities out, and desalinate and move the water we will need for our agriculture and industry. Rather than slow sea level rise, we should instead build water control structures and move populations away from coastal areas. Changes in precipitation and agricultural areas and settlement patterns will mean vast new lands will have to be developed. There will be immense fortunes to be made once the world fully wakes up to this problem. And there will be plenty of government contracts, subsidies and funding available to help get the ball rolling. And they’ll sell it politically as “jobs, jobs, jobs”. I think they are really looking forward to it.

The business mentality sees climate change as a challenge, not a catastrophe. Don’t you just love that word, “challenge”? And they see meeting that challenge as a potentially highly lucrative activity. It will be as profitable as war, but without the killing, just a lot of creative destruction of property and real estate. The alternative, reducing our energy and resource consumption and moving to a more sustainable life style and cleaner energy, they see as simply unacceptable. And of course, if we wait too long, it may become simply unachievable.

“Its 2017 and we are all barbarians.” — Eleanor of Aquitaine (paraphrased)