Re: Climate Change-Update From Professor Robert Giegengack, Chair Emeritus of UPenn's Earth & Environmental Science Dept.

Would you like to know why I think COP26 is one of the biggest virtue signaling circle-jerks of all time?

I interviewed the Professor Giegengack extensively over the course of several months in 2019 and wrote this blog post:

Down the Rabbit Hole of Climate Change / ESG Investing & Disruption of Hydrocarbons

Here is Professor Giegengack’s take on COP26:

"What an enormous amount of $$ the world is spending on something we can’t control."

"We will not 'mitigate' climate change, but we must adapt to it, as we have done since humans first appeared on Earth. Like every other organism now alive, we are still here because out ancestors adapted to climate change (and other environmental pressures)."

"About 10,000 years ago, humans 'invented' (discovered?) agriculture, and since then we have persuaded ourselves that it is easier to modify the environment to meet our needs than it is to adapt to changing conditions."

"When we realize that not even COP can 'control' the climate, we will return to adaptation as a tried and true coping strategy. That will take some adaptation!!"

Appending this debate to this thread, as it is a real-time example of the ossified, polarized state of the debate.

Michael Kao @UrbanKaoboy

@aeberman12 I've been cogitating on this comment and offer some thoughts. Citing "consensus" arguments as "proof" of anything has been dangerously limiting and myopic throughout history. (MINI-THREAD)