Just got round to reading this, thought JMG might have something better to offer than warmed-up denier talking points and ridiculous, evidence-free ad-homs against environmentalists. Had to laugh at this bit:
'Listen to climate change activists talk about what will happen if something isn’t done right away and you’ll get to hear apocalyptic claims that rival anything Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins put into their schlocky Left Behind series—if you’re not familiar with this, it’s more or less the Fifty Shades of Grey of Protestant apocalypse porn. Mark Lynas’ lavishly marketed 2008 climate-change opus Six Degrees, though a bit dated at this point, is typical of the genre in its gaudy portrayal of a world tucked under the broiler, as well as its proselytizing tone—again, the parallels with Left Behind are hard to miss. There’s plenty more of this sort of thing being splashed around by the corporate mass media these days.'
Really, and here I was thinking they'd been completely stonewalling the issue for the best part of 50 years! Indeed, a recent report found that climate deniers have received 50% more coverage than climate scientists in the media between 2000 and 2016:
Even after Thunberg and XR they seem to be just running around like headless chickens desperately trying to avoid the issue and focusing on the Disturbance to Our Precious Way of Life. I seriously doubt the US media has had anything more substantial to offer. Since he doesn't provide +any evidence+ to substantiate his claims (about modern environmentalists, not the quacks he remembers from the good ol' 1970s) I'm just going to call BS on this.
On the other hand I liked the idea of banning private jets!
cheers, I
PS: I think Al Gore was the one who mainly popularised the claim of Arctic sea ice loss by 2013, based on the work of prof. Wieslaw Maslowski whose team was 'well known for producing modelled dates that are in advance of other teams' - see: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ice-caps-melt-gore-2014/ The Arctic is still in its 'death spiral', it's just taking a little longer than this particular estimate:
'Time horizons for summer sea ice loss of these three approaches turns out to be roughly 2020, 2030, and 2040 respectively for trendsetters, stochasters, and modelers …
It is reasonable to conclude that Arctic sea ice loss is very likely to occur in the first rather than the second half of the 21st century, with a possibility of loss within a decade or two.'