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I'm asking if you are showing the same concern for people today as people tomorrow.

It depends to whom it is affordable. Do you care more about peoples lives in the hypothetical future or peoples lives now?

You need to also remember humans innovate all the time. We are moving around all the time

I'd probably say he's not a hysteric who thinks the world is doomed. Your the man who is saying "we have more floods and storms and therefore that is a result of catastrophic climate change". He is pointing out that people who claim that are being misled and that is also definitely not what...

Maybe he's just saying lets not throw the baby out with the bathwater?

The guy isn't sceptic. He's saying it is happening however the media is getting hysterical about it and frightening people with scenario's that seem highly unlikely to evolve.

This is a pretty sensible interview and kind of reflects my thinking on it all: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/13/climate-change-is-real-but-its-not-the-apocalypse/ The hysterics on here would do well to read it

Ok lets put it another way. Is it ethical for those who are worried about climate change and see it as terrible to have children? At the end of the day such actions cause harm to the planet.

Look they only record floods when it happens. Lots of areas used to flood and no one ever recorded it if it was on farmland. Now we have tarmaced so much more. This is not a "climate crisis" Its alarmism

A lot of the aim of politics at a practical level is to keep people "alarmed", thereby needing the politicians to lead them to safety. We have some good examples of this

We had a hot july and currently have a cold august in the UK. Amount of rainfall over 12 months in the UK has changed very little in 100 years. Potentially we have heavier storms some times but lets not pretend that never happened in the past.

You fell for the Covid scare, not me. It was obvious it was ridiculous from the start. Covid is spreading regardless of all interventions and stupid stupid modellers. If you think we have done a wonderful job of Covid management that's up to you. Its not even an exceptional disease, but...

It all depends on where the floodplain is, the value of the damage (hence it gets more reported), what is going on upstream and downstream, the drainage management etc.

Its called weather

World economies need massive kickstarts to keep them functioning. Its often not about slow continued growth but big leaps forward from innovation eg the wheel, the printing press, the train, the car, the internet etc. Climate change is one way ensuring another "big leap forward"

What about the wet June?

Everywhere in the world there is a fire. You cannot exclusively say these fires are a result of climate change. There are loads of factors - value of land, proximity to population, forest management etc etc. This May was very cold in the UK. End of July was very Hot. August is currently below...

Wrong Patrick Moore. They are not eccentrics or fruitcakes. Matt Ridley and Bjorn Lomborg are very intelligent, independent thinkers. You are of course entitled to disagree with them but it doesn't make them fruitcakes. They just see the bigger picture differently to you.

There are quite a few people - Patrick Moore, Mike Schellenberger, Matt Ridley, Bjorn Lomborg etc who are all intelligent thinking people (not fruitcakes) who say the climate is changing but that it does not have to be view in such catastrophic terms.

I just think people will adapt and will continue to adapt