He made some excellent points, so we're talking .8 of a degree all while being an warming phase for the earth for the past 200+ years.
Given the very small amount, the difficultly in accurate measurements going that far back then the burden of proof for mine is on those making the claim it will be catastrophic if we do nothing.
Interesting about the sea levels rising the same in the previous similar time period before major use of fossil fuels. Which appears to support long term natural warming as the MAIN cause.
I recall seeing another stat that showed in the past 100 years or so we've massively reduced the deaths by something like 95% due to the environment, something fossil fuels has allowed us with heating/cooling. Then theres the lives saved from cheap farming, lives saved from drought as we transport food, how much longer we live and so on.
The advantages of cheap fuel are plentiful, the negatives seem minor in comparison. Particularly given we're in a long term natural warming period and the contribution to that by humans completely unknown. Also as he discusses, increased Co2 may in fact be a positive, we know the planet had much higher CO2 in the past and it survived just fine.
