Look, the real way to achieve lower hydrocarbon/greenhouse gas usage is through WORLD ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN.

This means less hydocarbon (coal, oil, flammable gas) use for electicity production

and less use in cars, trucks, ships, trains and planes.

BTW forget about electrically or nuclear powered planes. Heavier aircraft can't fly.

You will know there's less hydrocarbon use/demand if the price of oil goes down.

Wait! Less hydrocarbon use, price going down, has actually happened with the worldwide Coronavirus LOCKDOWN.

Probably lower population increases have also happened with the LOCKDOWN as well.

CONCLUSION

The world has actually experienced the impact of reduced hyrocarbon use, lower population growth

leading to WORLD ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN through the Corona LOCKDOWN.

But the WORLD ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN through LOCKDOWN would need to be PERMANENT.

Real expert climate scientists tell us if we PERMANENTLY SLOWDOWN now the 2 degree C drop in international temperatures will see the first discernable results in ONLY 200 years.

We should all wait for this benefit of 200 years of WORLD ECONOMIC LOCKDOWN via LOCKDOWN, if climate scientists are to be believed...

But, but, but the argument is not about how to slow down hydrocarbon
use but whether we need to do that anyway !
Stock up on nice warm clothing for 250 to 350 years time, just 600
years after the last freeze up, the Maunder Minimum.
We have already reached our highest temperature in this cycle and in
a hundred years there will be a noticeable drop in temperature;
at least thats what a number of scientists say.

Steele

You've never heard a leftist squark "denialist!" for their argument?

And then, as if on cue, Mr Opinion's post appears in the same thread, pffffffft.

Just like all the other ones you have both just been brain-farting in.

Cumberland,

Keep in mind you are representing the AGW / climate deniers who want people to believe that the scientific community is dishonest and untrustworthy about anthropogenic global warming and its impact on the environment.

As one scientist pointed out: How can the deniers discuss the science when they are not even scientists?

So, those great scientific thinkers, the warmists, have stumbled on the solution: increase the spread of Covid 19, thereby throttling the economy and reducing demand for fossil-fuel-driven energy.

How bizarre!

Was out mind the chucks today and came home to see this master piece from Prof Essery... Love the reaction of the usual CCC'ers..

No response but to slur, throw muck and slander the author... Never new there that many American elitist Democrats here in OZ!