From: bill.sloman@ieee.org   
      
   On 14/12/2025 12:58 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:   
   > On Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:21:46 -0800, john larkin    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:34:50 +0000, Cursitor Doom    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:17:46 -0800, john larkin    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:49:08 +0000, Cursitor Doom    
   >>>> wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> On Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:17:33 -0800, john larkin    
   >>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> On Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:57:45 +0000, Cursitor Doom   
   >>>>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> On Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:54:21 -0500, ehsjr  wrote:   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> For those interested in the subject:   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> https://retractionwatch.com/2025/12/03/authors-retract-   
   ature-paper-projecting-high-costs-of-climate-change/   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Ed   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> "Climate Change" is all BS anyway. Nothing to do with "carbon" in any   
   >>>>>>> form.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Carbon is great. Plants love it.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Many tasty things include carbon.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Well, quite. Only the terminally obtuse like Bill Sloman would argue   
   >>>>> with that.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The increase in plant yield, from more CO2 and maybe a bit of warming,   
   >>>> will benefit billions of poor people far beyond any   
   >>>> hypothetical/hysterical harm.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Just the neurotic climate change fear and economic-political stupidity   
   >>>> is doing far more damage than a little warming.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Indeed. There are so many young people who have actually become   
   >>> mentally unhinged as a result of buying into this giant con job. The   
   >>> perps behind it have a *lot* to answer for and I sincerely hope they   
   >>> see the inside of a jail cell one day.   
   >>   
   >> Many people don't want to bring kids into this horrible polluted   
   >> doomed world. Darwin effect will prevail.   
   >   
   > Quite. We'll end up with sensitive, considerate, intelligent people   
   > declining to procreate whilst the lower orders go at it like monkeys   
   > on Viagra and bring down the average IQ of the population. But that's   
   > probably what TPTB want, if the truth be known.   
      
   What a load of rubbish. The powers that be be have a very short   
   attention span, and have never been all that interested in how the next   
   generation is going to turn out - in the long term the powers that be   
   are all going to be dead before next generation arrives.   
      
   And the choice of whether to procreate or not doesn't seem to have much   
   to do with the kind of environment the kids are going to grow up into.   
      
   Not being able to rent or buy enough living space to accommodate kids   
   may come into it, but that's pretty short term.   
      
   >> As my sweet delicate wife was just saying, it's f****** cold here   
   >> today. Where's that warming?   
   >   
   > She's not alone. It's a very commonly-expressed sentiment hereabouts   
   > as well.   
      
   Not all that many people have much of a grasp of statistics - or even   
   the difference between climate and weather.   
      
   --   
   Bil Sloman, Sydney   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)